It’s just two weeks until the BIG Virginia Liberty Fest, featuring the star of Fox Business Channel’s Freedom Watch, Judge Andrew Napolitano!  You can still sign up here!

The Virginia Liberty Fest is at the Richmond Convention Center; three weeks after that there is the Virginia Tea Party Convention with Ron Paul on October 8 and 9!

The Virginia Campaign for Liberty has a booth at the SGK Gun Show in Hampton on September 18:

Campaign For Liberty will have a booth at the SGK Gun Show at the Hampton Convention Center. Please contact 2nd Region Coordinator Jared Hendrix by phone at 757-303-9356 or by email jdhendrixster at gmail.com for more information. Note that C4L booth hours may or may not be held during the full show hours.

Finally, the Mechanicsville Tea Party will meet next Thursday, September 9 at 7 pm at the Eastern Hanover Fire Station on 8493 New Bethesda Road in Mechanicsville.  Please call 769-8884 for details.

The loony left are at it again. They have a website called Tea Party Tracker that is begging their left wing followers to grab a camera and find a racist, or at least one with a T-shirt message that the left wing losers at Media Matters can spin into something nefarious. All they want is one swastika or “N” word on a sign or an article of clothing to prove their theory that the Tea Party participants are all racists.

Strange how these lefties see black people at the Tea Party events and don’t come to the conclusion that all Tea Party folk are black. Yet one racist T-shirt is proof positive that every white person there is a racist.

Or consider the fact that these same lefties support the Ground Zero Mosque, and tell us that a few bad Muslims are not representative of the entire group, despite killing 3,000 of us. Yet the same thought process evades their small minds when they go hunting for racists at a Tea Party, who have not harmed a fly. Oh – and we tend to pick up the trash when we leave.

Might there be a racist or two at a Tea Party? Sure. They are no doubt upset with the direction the liberals are taking us too. They also happen to be racists. That does not make the entire group racist.

And the Tea Party folks would ask them to leave, but that would look awful silly for a group that is working hard to remind people what the Constitution is all about.

You know, rights, freedom and all that stuff that just gets in Obama’s way. Remember?

If the good nuts at Media Matters want to find a racist, they most likely need to look in the mirror.

But smart people understand Media Matters does not care one wit about racism. They are looking for a weapon to fight the massive move to the right our country is now going through.

Good luck with that.

And don’t let the race baiting door hit you on the way into obscurity!

Mark Fitzgibbons has a great post on American Thinker called ‘Compassionate’ nonsense aimed at the Tea Party that calls out George W. Bush Speechwriter Michael Gerson for using anti-Tea Party scare tactics about Social Security.

I especially loved the line:

Hold on seniors. Vote for establishment Republicans or those radical Tea Partiers will steal your Social Security. What? You seniors are Tea Partiers?

There are members of the “old guard” Republican Party that are so off base on this and other issues that it is almost laughable.

Almost.

Want the truth? Read Mark J Fitzgibbons American Thinker article.

I was inspired by this comment in a New York Post article about the absurd idea that the funding of opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque should be investigated:

She [Pelosi] famously discounted the Tea Party as an “astroturf” movement, directed by the Republican Party. She couldn’t process the idea of a genuine grass-roots revolt against big government. That kind of thing just doesn’t happen in San Francisco. If Pelosi were to star in a sci-fi movie, it’d be “The Speaker from Another Planet.”

Welcome to the Ron Paul Planet, Speaker Pelosi!  Say hello to John Dennis!

Dennis’ position on the issues are great.  He’s a solid non-interventionist:

The Constitution is clear on who bears the responsibility of the power to declare war, i.e. the Congress. I am strongly opposed to Congress passing resolutions granting the President the authority to use force. Unless there is an imminent attack, the Congress should never disregard its Constitutional obligation over the war power. A decision to declare war requires debate, a process that clarifies the country’s situation and leaves a clear conscience whatever decided.

As a country we should welcome trade with all countries, resolve our outstanding disputes with countries considered unfriendly and have diplomatic relations with all.

I support ending both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and withdrawing our troops as safely and quickly as possible. I am concerned with the current U.S. timetable for withdrawal in Iraq. The final exit of December 2011 creates the realistic possibility of U.S. troops being drawn back into battle should civil war(s) break out.

On taxes and spending, he’s in the mainstream of RP supporters like me:

I propose the Federal government:

• Dramatically cut federal spending immediately, including abolishing the Department of Education.

• Effectively abolish the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture. Any Constitutionally appropriate functions may be moved to the DOJ or DOI.

• Abolish capital gains taxes

• Drastically cut, with an eye toward ending, the income tax

• Unwind and end both wars within 6-12 months

• Federal budgets must have a surplus

I especially like this comment on the income tax:

The premise of an income tax, that government has a right to the fruits of your labor, is antithetical to a free society. An income tax implies that a government owns you and allows you to keep a portion of what you make.

This reminds me of the famous comment made by Ambassador Alan Keyes in the 2000 GOP primaries (I voted for Keyes in the VA primary and met him during the campaign) that the income tax turned the people into “tax serfs”; that the government owns us and our money.

Dennis also is against the Federal Reserve, for the Second Amendment (and against any international treaties to curtail that right), and takes a stark position on inflation and personal liberty:

It is clear that the Federal government can not continue in its current financial direction. If it does, there will be a dollar crisis within the next few years. And once the dollar collapses, it cannot be reversed. Try to imagine our country, which is now heavily dependent on imports for basic necessities (e.g. oil), trying to survive the financial restructuring that goes along with a collapsed currency.

I support:

• The Bill of Rights, and in the context of privacy and personal liberty, especially the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments.

I oppose:

• Warrantless wiretaps.
• The creation of extra-judicial systems to deal with enemy combatants.
• Waterboarding and other forms of torture.
• I believe our government must respect the 800 year foundation of the law embodied in the principle of habeas corpus.

I am not sure the nation is ready for this formula but certainly spending must be sharply cut for the nation’s economic health to be restored over the long term.

John Dennis is endorsed by Ron Paul:

Said Dr. Paul, “John Dennis is truly committed to Liberty, personal freedom, fiscal discipline and a more sensible foreign policy. I am very happy that John has decided to run for Congress and wholeheartedly endorse him.”

I am glad that the people in the Bay Area have a choice for Congress.  Speaker Pelosi will be hard to beat but is not exempt from defeat because of her position.  Ask Tom Foley!  Go John Dennis Go!

The conventional wisdom is that Tea Party candidate (endorsed by Sarah Palin and Ron Paul) and former championship star for the Washington Redskins Clint Didier cannot win.  There are two establishment candidates:  incumbent Patty Murray and twice statewide candidate Dino Rossi.  Only the top two can reach the November ballot.

Try out these two articles.  The first by David Horsey at Seattle pi.com shows that there may be a fair amount of sign enthusiasm in Eastern Washington for Didier:

Two years ago, during my annual trek through the Republican bastion of Central Washington, I saw a bumper crop of campaign signs touting Dino Rossi for governor. Signs promoting Democrat Chris Gregoire were rare as orchids.

This year, with Rossi running for the U.S. Senate, I didn’t see even a single sign bearing his name. Instead, Clint Didier’s name was everywhere. The favored candidate of Sarah Palin and Tea Party enthusiasts, Didier is not supposed to stand a chance against Rossi in the state’s August 17th primary. But you wouldn’t guess that on a drive down the roads between Omak and the Tri-Cities. All those signs make it look like Didier country all the way.

Horsey is no fan:

I guess what bugs me most is that candidates like Clint Didier and his patron Sarah Palin are riding on a wave of false fears. We who live in cities and hold liberal ideas are not the enemy. We work hard, too. We love our families and want opportunities for our kids. When there is need in our communities, we join together and pitch in, just like ranchers who team up at branding time. We love our country as much as anyone.

Horsey’s mythical liberals may not be the enemy but the ones in power seem scary enough:  Obamacare, sovereignty killers like the UN Child Treaty, cap and trade, false “stimulus” packages (a better one would have been an income tax holiday), Card Check and a continuing goody-goody wars.  But I digress…

The second article (at thenewstribune.com) is about the 500,000 robocalls from Sarah Palin on Didier’s behalf:

The tea-party U.S. Senate candidate announced over the weekend that a recorded message from Palin will go out to about 500,000 voters.

Palin is apparently not coming in person but the robocalls could be effective if properly focused. I think Didier seems to have caught fire among Ron Paul libertarians like me.  Let’s see if he can even come in first tomorrow.

I am the President of a Tea Party chapter and my doctorate in history focused on the Progressive era. As such, I can tell you that modern progressives belong in the Tea Party. Furthermore, the Tea Party has a lot to learn from the progressives.

Glen Beck is only half right. Leaning heavily on Jonah Goldberg’s excellent book, Liberal Fascism, he argues that progressive government programs inexorably lead to totalitarianism. This may be correct. The fallacy comes from not recognizing that historical progressives themselves wrestled with the question of how they could have government programs without undermining local community participation. What Beck does not acknowledge is that progressives themselves were very worried that a tyranny of Washington experts could exclude the voice of the common man.

Tea Party participants often make the fatal error of considering the opposite of big government to be Laissez Faire individualism. They demand zero government and to be left alone. As Alexis De Tocqueville documented in his amazing 1830 classic, Democracy in America, before progressivism local control and heavy levels of civic participation, not unmolested individualism, defined America. The opposite of big government is local citizen participation, not anarchistic individualism.

Prior to the industrial revolution small ‘island communities,’ as the historian Robert Wiebe called them, dotted America’s landscape. In these communities you knew the mayor, the teacher, and everyone’s business. But the emerging large transnational industrial interests could not be regulated by town halls. And ma and pa could not be participants in national affairs. As De Tocqueville before them, progressives largely defined America as the land of political participation and worried that the masses would become passive.

The progressives’ concern for local participation is evident in their implementing the initiative process. This got the common man a voice in State politics and weakened powerful politicians. To foster local control progressives fought for the direct election of Senators. They worried about cronyism between big powers and powerful men. The progressives also got women the vote in order to get more Americans involved in political affairs. While they wanted national systems, progressives also counterbalance distance from the powers that be with increased channels for democratic participation.

My dissertation focused on Frances Kellor’s quest for participatory democracy. As the head of national Americanization efforts, rather than creed, she sought to get immigrants involved in local politics. For her, such participation was the sin qua non of being an American. She got Roosevelt’s Progressive Party to create local activist chapters to guide national policy. And, she wanted civilian training camps, like Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, to foster civic engagement in the populace. All of these projects sought to foster the participation she saw in the island community she grew up in.

Progressives, your heritage demands that you celebrate and attempt to foster local political participation. As it is the greatest popular movement in recent times, you should laud the political activism of the Tea Party members and join them in their activism. Tea Party folk should recognize that smaller government equals local government. Rather than simply seeking to be left alone, we must strive to run our communities locally. That means an interest in civic organizations as well as straight politics. We all, as Americans, must become engaged in our communities again.

For such a revolution to happen, both sides must change their mindsets. Liberals cannot continue to call all those who wish to lower the deficit ‘racist.’ This does not foster the civic participation your progressive forefathers sought. And my Tea Party brethren, instead of simply fighting government, you must demand local control of programs. We need, for example, to quadruple the tax exemption for giving to local charities. And, whether you agree or disagree on the specific programs, please do welcome your progressive fellow-citizens’ help in striving to take care of our communities locally.

The desperation is not unexpected, not even surprising. As Democrats are on the verge of losing the House and possibly the Senate, they are turning to desperate tactics to help salvage their majority.

Continuing with their laughable theory that Republicans are secretly “running” the Tea Party, Tim Kaine’s DNC is now asking the party faithful to become undercover snitches, hunting for any Republican that dares to poke his head up at any Tea Party event, no matter how innocuous.

But as we know, the Tea Party is not a Republican venture. Sure, it is a big tent and Republicans are welcome, as are Democrats and Independents. Party affiliation is not important. What is important is a belief in smaller government and lower taxes – and personal Liberty.

As Independent voters who put Obama over the top in 2008 now realize their mistake and turn to groups like the Tea Parties, Democrats want to now call these disgruntled Obama voters “fringe”, when it the the Democrats who are the true fringe.

So, the tactic continues for the Democrats. All along they have urged the party faithful to infiltrate Tea Party meetings and record the events so they can use the video against the group they fear most – Tea Party Patriots.

So, how did that tactic work out so far?

Despite begging liberals to spy on the Tea Party protests, not one single video ever surfaced showing even one racial incident among the Tea Party protesters. Even strolls through the crowd designed to instigate racial incidents failed.

But that did not matter. The just made it up. And the Journolist Media was only too happy to repeat the lies.

So, in the end, it really didn’t matter. Despite Herculean efforts by the left to uncover racism and hate speech at Tea Parties, they found none. The logical conclusion is the left is simply wrong.

Below is the sad, sad letter from Democrats desperate to hang on to the power, even as it slips through their grubby little paws:

With Congress’s August recess now under way, Republican members of Congress are starting to show up at Tea Party events and campaign rallies all over the country.

We saw last year during the fight for health reform that this is a time when the extremists run rampant. Remember “death panels?”

This year, Republicans are looking to have it both ways, trying to appeal to independent voters while making promises to the Tea Party crowd to pursue an extreme right-wing agenda if they regain control of Congress.

Who knows what’s being said when the cameras aren’t running? We don’t — but I sure wish we did.

That’s where the “Accountability Project” comes in. It’s a platform for citizens to document Republican candidates and their public statements at local events, as well as their campaign tactics.

The Accountability Project allows you to submit videos, recordings, and other items for publication online, so that candidates see that there’s a cost to their dishonest statements — and so that everyday citizens can see what their Republican candidates for office are saying.

We need people like you to take the lead.

The American people deserve an honest debate — and far too often, candidates try to make misleading attacks and false claims under the radar.

This project seeks to shine a light on those practices, and you have a crucial role to play in making it happen.

There are several ways in which folks can participate:

– If you have anything that can record video — from a cell phone to a video camera — you can go to public events and record what candidates say.

– If you receive any sort of mailings or literature from candidates, you can post them online for all to see.

– And if you hear of any upcoming public events for Republican candidates in your area, you can let everyone know, so that other concerned citizens can get out there.

This project will enable folks to keep track of Republican candidates running for every office, up and down the ballot.

Please help fight back against Republicans’ shadowy tactics — participate in The Accountability Project:

Thanks,

Shauna

Shauna Daly
Research Director
Democratic National Committee

It is such delicious irony that this is a plea for Democrats to take to the shadows and hide their intents and affiliations to “help fight back against Republicans’ shadowy tactics — participate in The Accountability Project:”

Except that the “shadowy” Republicans are not the ones skulking in the shadows.

Exactly who is the hidden, shadowy figure with the deceitful agenda?

If you guessed Democrats and members of the “Accountability Project” you guessed right. Just more slime ball DNC tactics disguised with a noble sounding name.

Shauna, we got your Accountability Project heading your way on November 2.

I can see the Democrats Accountability from my back yard!

My blog earlier today was about the new Tea Party documentary due out this fall.  It’s emphasis is the national debt.  It’s the right thing to do:  We need to engage the culture and reach out.  Consider another movie trend:  Churches and believers making independent movies.  I am sure Hollywood laughed when they heard that this Baptist church in rural Georgia was producing a football movie.  They should have been right:

Hollywood veterans will tell you that if a low-budget movie makes it into theaters, it’s a miracle.

Here’s the scenario, perhaps worthy of a Disney plot:

The movie is the benefit of a highly targeted marketing plan and the latest success for Sherwood Pictures, a tiny production company affiliated with Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., about 100 miles southwest of Macon. It was directed by Alex Kendrick, 38, and written by Mr. Kendrick and his brother, Stephen, 35, with the church’s senior pastor, Michael Catt, serving as an executive producer.

They stopped laughing very quickly:

Their second movie, Facing the Giants, about a struggling high school football team, was picked up by Sony Pictures and ended up being shown in more than 1,000 theaters. Produced on a $100,000 budget, the film brought in $10.1 million in box office receipts, was translated into 13 languages and was shown in more than 50 nations. Stephen Kendrick rattles off a list of the film’s other accomplishments: “The DVD was the No. 1 one audio-visual product in Christian bookstores in 2006. … It was featured as an in-flight movie on Turkish Airlines.

“Disney cruises showed it in the cabins on all of their ships; kids in China produced their own version of it; the NFL passed it out; it was shown in public schools; 8,500 churches bought a license to show it to their congregations; and it was listed among the Top 10 sports movies of 2006 by Sports Illustrated magazine.”

First, I want to say, I am glad to be back blogging – between vacation and a computer virus I was out for a few days!

GREAT NEWS!  Move over Michael Moore!  The Tea Party is going to make a documentary:  And its better than the Michael Moore stuff we see advertised all the time!

See this article from Tim Montgomerie at ConservativeHome.com (Thanks Tim!  This is an unofficial UK Tory Party blog – you see it pays to reach out!):

I’ve long thought that the docufilms produced by the likes of Michael Moore, Al Gore and Morgan Spurlock are powerful ways of influencing public opinion and I’m delighted to see that American conservatives are fighting back with a movie of their own:

Here is the web site.  Ray Griggs is his name and the trailer is a hoot!  (I wish Griggs had interviewed Ron Paul but otherwise it’s a great idea.)  I believe we must engage the culture not run from it.  As a follower of Christ, I understand being in the world but not of the world.  Let’s support ideas like this.  Did you know Christians are getting into the movie business?  Yes, we are.  More next time!

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Alleged traitor and the new darling of Code Pink and the other war protestors Bradley Manning is being held in Quantico, Va. pending possible trial on charges he leaked numerous diplomatic cables plus secret video of a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack on unarmed men in Baghdad. On Sunday the first ever Free Bradley Manning Rally was held in the Quantico town park just outside of  the military installation of the same name. Since Cindy Sheehan retired this group has been looking for someone to energize their movement and they have latched on to this suspected dishonorable private.  Being a veteran of many tea party rallies in Virginia and Washington D.C. I must say their effort was lacking in substance and energy. Just when it looked like the day might pass without incident the courageous members of the CNN crew got into a heated confrontation with law enforcement as seen at the end of this exclusive footage shot by our own P. Henry Saddlebur while in deep cover.  Code Pink was not alone, there was also a counter protest at the park sponsored by the Washington chapter of FreeRepublic…

Continued here:
Code Pink Rally Round the (alleged)Traitor

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The RTD has a reader comment feature called Two Cents, where citizens can give brief opinions on a variety of topics.  Today’s RTD on Dead Tree had a great one from C. E. Herndon from Chester, VA.  I’d link it but my brief attempt at finding it on line proved fruitless. Democratic Party Chairman Tim Kaine claims the Tea Party movement will set this nation back 10 years.  Ten years ago, gas was $1.59 a gallon.I was getting 3 to 5 percent raises, my health insurance was $10 a week, and my 401(k) grew by hundreds.  And, there was no 9/11–we all felt safer then.  We didn’t have a president who went around the world bowing and apologizing because we are the greatest nation on Earth.  Thank you, Tim Kaine, for helping me to me make up my mind to join the Tea Party movement.

Read more:
Richmond Times Dispatch: Two Cents

PLEDGES FOR CANDIDATES WISHING TO SPEAK AT THE SEPT 12th BROOKLYN TEA PARTY RALLY !

On September 12th, the Brooklyn Tea Party will be holding a rally at the 69th Street Pier. We are actively seeking speakers and would greatly appreciate any recommendations and leads you provide. I am currently pursuing representatives of The Club for Growth and Citizens Against Government Waste.
Many candidates we have had speak to our group previously, as well as others, would like to speak at our rally. However, to separate those we would like to give publicity to from those who would just use our credibility, I propose their acceptance of pledges be a prerequisite.
Below are six suggested pledges I would like to require of candidates who wish to speak at our rally. Please feel free to criticize these and suggest others.
Personally, I would like to add a commitment to use the words “culturism” and “culturist” to counterbalance multiculturalism and disarm the constant abuse of the word ‘racist’ by those who do not wish to discuss the negative aspects of diversity.
Your feedback on this suggestion, the other pledges, and speakers is greatly needed and appreciated.

Pledges for Brooklyn Tea Party Candidates:
1) – Whereas the reduction of our deficit will require sacrifice;
Pledge to propose legislation to cut all government salaries by 20%.

2) -Whereas stimulus plans and the associated borrowing undermine
our national solvency and character;
Pledge to fight to have the unspent stimulus monies applied directly to the reduction of our debt and vote against any further exceptions to the Pay-As-You-Go Budget Rule.

3) – Whereas civic participation is weakened by national initiatives and strengthened by local community participation;
Pledge to triple the tax deduction for local charitable giving.

4) – Whereas we have national sovereignty, are at war with Islam, and no international right exists for foreign nations to build mosques in our nation;
Pledge to fight the building of the 9 – 11 mosque.

5) – Whereas the stability of our nation rests on the reduction of the debt and we must also ask for sacrifice from the off-spring of the greatest generation;
Pledge to propose legislation to take social security and medicare away from those making over 225,000 dollars a year upon their retirement.

6) – Whereas unemployment is well above 10% and our nation cannot assimilate unlimited numbers of peoples from foreign cultures;
Pledge to build a fence along our Southern border and denounce attacks on Arizona’s laws.

Good news from the home of Harry Truman, a honest Chief Executive I admire very much, and that is the citizens have crushed Obamacare at the polls, joining the Commonwealth of Virginia and other states in passing a law barring the individual mandate. 

I also want to express my admiration for my former delegate Bob Marshall and my Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and his able legal staff for their political courage in resisting the individual mandate.  They are looking like visionaries at the moment.  I am looking forward to meeting the attorney General at the Tea Party Convention in October

I am pleased to be blogging again!  Thanks Tom for his encouragement. 

I am pleased to report that the Tough Nerd, Rick Snyder, appears to be the GOP nominee for Governor in Michigan.  I probably agree that he’s not a Ron Paul libertarian but he did come from the private sector (PriceWaterHouse and Gateway Computers) and has never held public office before.  I also like Snyder’s detailed platform.  Finally, I liked his “One Tough Nerd” commercial. 

I urge my Tea Party/Ron Paul readers to consider Snyder.  I have lived in Michigan as a kid (the UP even!) and share his affection for the state and its people.  Michigan needs help to rise again.

Whacky Timmy Kaine

DNC Chairman and former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine was on Fox News the morning. We had not seen Timmy in a while and were wondering if all that Obama changey talk had any impact on the DNC Chair. The news is good. Tim Kain is still an idiot.

Kaine proceeded incoherently to accuse the Republicans and the Tea Party of being one and the same. His warning was to voters that the Tea Party was only for the rich, and were themselves the elite.

Well, I am not sure what Tea Party Timmy based this assumption on, but certainty none that we have attended.

At first, they said the Tea Party were all dumb, racist, redneck hicks and they would fizzle and go away.

Then, they said the Tea Party were all thugs and Nazi’s.

Now, the Tea Party are elitists.

I suppose that means we all stick our little finger out when we sip our Buds.

Here is what is going on with this new strategy. The Democrats are afraid of losing their RINO’s and the Republican Elitists who are in it for the power, not the good of the country.

Allow me to explain it.

The Liberal Republicans like John McCain (when he sobers up after the election) and Lindsey Graham along with the witches of Eastwick, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have proven to be easy pushovers for the liberal Democrat legislation. And a number of other Republicans who understand that the Tea Party is NOT their friend, because the gig is up (they all know who they are).

This latest DNC scheme is designed to give these Republicans a reason to come out against the Tea Party, eliminating the powerful influence the Tea Party has on the Republicans.

So, it is absurd to think for one minute that the Tea Party is the same as the Republican Party. To be sure, there are Republicans that understand the Tea Party is representative of the anger and disappointment in the horrible job that our elected officials have done, and the damage they have done to America and our freedom. And the Tea Party is an equal opportunity offender. Both Democrats and Republicans are in the line of fire to be the next to retire. (I’d like to hear Jesse Jackson say that sentence.)

But the real show of ignorance from Kaine and the DNC is in attempting to use a historical reference to the Boston Tea Party.

Ok. Follow me here, dear Dems. TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already.

See that? You take the first letter of each word and they spell T.E.A. Cleaver name. That’s all. Reminds you of the thing that happened in Boston a few hundred years ago, doesn’t it.

Well, the similarity ends there.

The Tea Party is not mad at King George, or even Queen Elizabeth. And the movement is not about taxes on tea. It is about taxes – period. Too much. And what is really frustrating is that Obama is not really taxing and spending. He is borrowing and spending. The taxes will come later. Well, really sooner.

And yes, Republicans and even Bush are to blame for this mess too.

But I really feel embarrassed for Timmy Kaine. He really is a lug nut or two short. Does ObamaCare include coverage for delusional folks?

Lou Dobbs

Yesterday, Virginia Right! told you that the Virginia Tea Party Convention has a major announcement concerning the October 8-9, 2010 Convention.

We also promised to reveal the secret promptly at 5:00 PM, before Jamie Radtke makes the announcement live on the Doc Thompson Show on AM 1140 in Richmond.

As promised, we can tell you now that the special guest is Lou Dobbs!

Fiscally Conservative to the core, Mr. Dobbs is the perfect complement to Congressman Ron Paul.

Now, go tell your friends to listen to Doc and Jamie on 1140 AM in Richmond.

From yesterday’s post:

Tune in to the Doc Thompson show shortly after 5:00 PM TOMORROW – July 29, 2010 and Jamie Radtke will fill you in on the HUGE NEWS!!!

That is 1140 AM RADIO in Richmond or click on the link for Doc and click “Listen Live” at the top of the page.

But if you just can’t wait, or want to be the first to know, visit Virginia Right! at exactly 5:00 PM and you will have the scoop – before your friends!

Then call up your BFF’s, hit them up on Facebook and TELL THEM YOU KNOW WHO THE MYSTERY PERSON IS!

Place bets! (I promise you will win!)

And yes, I know the answer. But I must warn you, I have had extensive military training and a security clearance above Top Secret. And these lips (and keyboard) are sealed until 5:00 PM Thursday.

And besides, I promised Jamie I would keep the secret.

And if I were you, I would grab my tickets today. I will be there blogging live, along with a number of the top bloggers in the state, but you will not want to miss this event.

Click here to buy tickets for BOTH DAYS for a special early bird price.

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I just received word from Jamie Radtke, President of the Richmond Tea Party and Chairwoman of the Va Tea Party Patriots Federation of another BIG NAME that will attend the Virginia Tea Party Convention October 8-9, 2010 in Richmond, Va.

This is in addition to Ron Paul that has been previously announced.

So, who is this big time person? Is it a man or a woman?

How can you find out???

Simple:

Tune in to the Doc Thompson show shortly after 5:00 PM TOMORROW – July 29, 2010 and Jamie Radtke will fill you in on the HUGE NEWS!!!

That is 1140 AM RADIO in Richmond or click on the link for Doc and click “Listen Live” at the top of the page.

But if you just can’t wait, or want to be the first to know, visit Virginia Right! at exactly 5:00 PM and you will have the scoop – before your friends!

Then call up your BFF’s, hit them up on Facebook and TELL THEM YOU KNOW WHO THE MYSTERY PERSON IS!

Place bets! (I promise you will win!)

And yes, I know the answer. But I must warn you, I have had extensive military training and a security clearance above Top Secret. And these lips (and keyboard) are sealed until 5:00 PM Thursday.

And besides, I promised Jamie I would keep the secret.

And if I were you, I would grab my tickets today. I will be there blogging live, along with a number of the top bloggers in the state, but you will not want to miss this event.

Click here to buy tickets for BOTH DAYS for a special early bird price.

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You might be a racist if you:

• Don’t like illegal immigration
• Think the Government should stay out of your Healthcare
• Ever attended a TEA Party or Patriot Group meeting
• Dare verbalize dissent with a Democrat

Watching Juan Williams on Fox News this weekend, I am amazed at just how shrill his voice has become when defending Obama.

“Some of those signs were downright disrespectful of the President;” Williams lamented about the TEA Party protests.

I suppose he has forgotten how little respect former President Bush received from his party. But to Williams and others on the left, it’s all OK because Bush is white. Obama deserves respect because he is the first black president.

Pronunciation: \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\

Function: noun

Date: 1933

1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination

So Williams believes Obama is somehow worthy of respect because he is black and president. Sounds like Williams and the Democrats need to read a dictionary. You will not find the word disrespect under racism. Nor will you find the word disagree under the definition for racism. Because you can both disagree and disrespect someone without being a racist, regardless of the color of the person’s skin.

No, the reason the Democrats hurl the accusations of racism as freely as Obama is spending our money is because they have no logical argument. When they pull the race card, they are admitting defeat and trying to change the argument.

But to toss around such a serious accusation frivolously diminishes the impact and meaning of the word.

Remember the impact of the phrase “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” when Rhett Butler first shocked audiences on the big screen?

Damn was not a word taken lightly. It is so hideous in meaning that it was never spoken. And when it was, the impact was profound.

Now, the F-bomb is tossed around like, well, like charges of racism.

And calling someone a racist is becoming like saying “damn you”. It is no longer a serious charge to be taken seriously. It is simply another curse word in the English language.

Pity, that.

This is one word that should have been saved for those times when true racism reared it’s ugly head. Not bantered about with callous disregard in lieu of a reasoned argument.

First Lady Michelle Obama made a brave culturist speech about obesity in the African – American community and the antiquated NAACP used the occasion to slander the Tea Party as racist. The American people and the Tea Party are sick to death of this tired of the media and race baiters like the NAACP using such smear tactics. These race baiters’ tactics dismantle our national discourse, are dangerous, and hurt minority children more than racism does.

The NAACP is not the only organization obsessed with the titillating, malicious charge of racism. The media’s coverage of Mrs. Obama’s NAACP speech highlights their rancid guilt in this technique. ABC’s coverage of her speech claimed that she had denounced the Tea Party as racist.

Yet she never said a word about the Tea Party. This coverage completely obscured the important culturist message she delivered. The focus of First Lady Obama’s speech dealt with childhood obesity. She told her audience that, “one in three children is overweight or obese.” Yet the race-obsessed coverage took us away from the vital issue that the First Lady wanted us to discuss.

Mrs. Obama’s speech was culturist. She laid the blame for childhood obesity at the door of cultural changes. She told of walking to school as a child and having gym class twice a week. Furthermore she discussed the impact of television replacing outside activity. She also discussed the decline of family meals and accessibility of candy as malicious dietetic factors. Her talk had nothing to do with race. It had everything to do with culture.

First Lady Obama spoke of her hope that her White House garden would “spark a broader conversation about the health and well-being not just of our kids but of our communities.” Obviously, the abuse of the word “racism” in reference to her speech and the attention on the Tea Party completely obscured her message. It spawned virtually zero discussion of childhood obesity. ABC and the NAACP not only slandered good Americans belonging to the Tea Party, they diminished, and thus insulted, the First Lady with their repetition of charges of racism.

We need the ability to discuss issues in terms of culture, not race. After the NAACP accused the Tea Party of being racist, this non-issue became the focus of valuable media time. David Webb, a prominent African – American Tea Party leader, had to spend much of his resulting media time and attention discussing racism issue instead issues he and his Tea Party brethren would rather focus on like fiscal conservatism. Ironically, after Webb agreed to a summit on racism, the NAACP President, Benjamin Jealous, said, “there should be no debate about racism.” Exactly Mr. Jealous! It is a moot point. Our nation is as united as any in the world on the idea of combating racism.

Mrs. Obama and David Webb are not the only ones distracted by constant charges of racism. The Tea Party has stayed away from the vital issue of protecting our borders for fear of being called racist. Every step of our powerful Tea Party organization becomes tepid in this environment. The drug-running criminals of Northern Mexico represent a cultural threat to America, not a racial one. Yet the media seems obsessed with smearing those who worry about this issue as racist. The Tea Party needs to eschew this red herring of racism and talk in cultural terms if we are to feel free to discuss vital issues again.

Mrs. Obama speech itself could be called racist. She told her audience, “African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that’s half of our children.” But rather than claiming racist attitudes caused this, rather than calling America racist, the First Lady highlights cultural patterns. Her “Let’s Move” initiative (www.letsmove.gov) targets “food deserts” in poorer neighborhoods underserved by major supermarkets. If she were white, the media would have called her racist. But her analysis is cultural, not racial.

Elaborating, First Lady Obama told the NAACP that “inequalities still persist – in education and health, in income and wealth.” The NAACP considers these disparities the result of “racism.” But, needing to use desperate race-baiting tactics to stay in the news reflects the complete lack of relevance of their analysis. Culture explains differences in achievement in health, income, and education much better than phantoms of racial attitudes. As the media and the NAACP constantly ignore such issues and bring the focus back to racism, it robs America of an opportunity to have useful cultural discussions that could especially help the very minority groups they purport to care about.

To facilitate this transition away from constant accusations of racism, we need to supplement our vocabulary with the words “culturist” and “culturism.” Whenever the media or the NAACP smear citizens who speak about cultural issues as racist, we need a word that clarifies our concerns. Our PC multiculturalist leaders slander all those who would point out that diversity includes less-than-ideal characteristics as racist. But, we know that achievement gaps in education, health, and income have long been more profitably discussed as stemming from cultural maladies than reflecting the white man’s residual racist attitudes. America and the Tea Party must reject the race obsession of the media and the NAACP and follow Mrs. Obama’s lead in speaking in culturist terms.