Ronald Reagan has said all there needs to be said in 1975 address to CPAC. Those principals still ring true today. Why? Because there are certain constants in our Founders' vision for the United States. Knowing that the winds of tyranny would always blow when the resolve for freedom was at its most complacent mements, they instituted into our constitutional form of government one simple fundamental principle: that government should be limited.

It becomes the responsibility of each passing generation that this fundamental principle be maintained. If we and the generations to come do not repeatedly stand up for that one basic principal and its underlying tenet that human freedom comes from God, we are dead in the water. 

Now there has been a lot of discussion about forming a third political party born out of frustration with the current state of GOP, particularly after election losses in 2006 & 2008. There is a mentality inside the beltway that Republicans can moderate its message and tone to attract liberals and centrists. They believe falsely in the inevitability of business as usual and still think we need to peddle questionable influence in a political landscape that is perceived to be becoming more and more liberal in order to survive.

Our nation is at a crossroads, and this is once again a "time for choosing."

Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of "blurring the lines" between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections. Unfortunately, the Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate (Dede Scozzafava) who more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race. This is why Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party's ticket.

Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual.

If creating a third party is not the way to go, then what do we do about a party that cost us two of the biggest elections in our history? The Republican party is not a bad party. It has just gone astray. A third party, like a public option in health care, would only drive the one party that (albeit imperfectly) has kept us viable all these years out of business. 

Instead, we need to look at what the liberals did. Study how they slowly and steadily infiltrated the Democrat party from the 1960's until now. Did radical socialists need a third party to advance their agenda? The answer is obvious. And so, conservatives now must take up the mantle of doing something very important for the future of our republic. 

If we are ever, EVER, going to take our country back, we need to take our party back first. 

The Republican party IS the conservative party in America just as the Democrat party is the liberal party. Those who run from the contrast avoid the great Ronald Reagan's call for "raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people..." 

The Republican party is Ronald Reagan's party. We are Ronald Reagan's people. We love a country that is without compare because Ronald Reagan was true to the spirit of our Founders and knew exactly what the role of government was. And when implemented properly, the Constitution worked - giving us the strongest period of peace time prosperity in history and protecting us from outside aggressors such as the Soviet Union. 

I listen to all the discussions on the direction of America and the direction of the GOP and scratch my head thinking "if what Ronald Reagan did worked best, why mess with that?" Why not just take Reagan's principles and apply them to today's problems? The answer is that simple. Listen to Reagan. Listen to the TEA Party movement. Listen to Sarah Palin.

It's time to make the "RINO" an endangered species. 

First we must take our party back. Then we can take our country back.

Tea Party protesters and Town Hall meeting attendees have been mocked and vilified by the American left in such a nasty hateful way, you wonder if liberals ever had an ounce of decency to begin with. Last week, we had a G20 Summit with hundreds of arrests after protesters threw rocks and became violent. Liberals were silent. We had hundreds of thousands, possibly a million people in Washington DC for the 9/12 Tea Party with no arrests. Liberals were outraged, calling them "angry mobs." The ugly political discourse we are witnessing today is a direct result of the fact that liberals are hypocrites, intellectually inconsistent and downright intellectually dishonest.

After the Tea Parties, Nancy Pelosi accused American citizens who were exercising their right of free speech of carrying swastikas and being part of a funded AstroTurf movement. The president also chided his own citizens in a way most management and leadership trainers will tell you is destructive to the relationship between a leader and his people.

Many liberals who accuse the Tea Party and Town Hall movements of being racist, hate mongering, anti-American are the same people who burned American flags and acted violently at anti war protests during the Vietnam and Iraqi wars. The Snooper Report said:

I didn't see anyone dropping their trousers and crapping on the American Flag at any of the Tea Parties. Did you? I didn't see anyone dragging the American Flag behind them as they walked around. Did you? I didn't see anyone vandalizing any private or government property at the rallies. Did you? Apparently, that is reserved for the anti-Americanist crowds to do and Nancy Pelosi says that they can do that because it is OK with her.

For years, liberals have screamed "freedom of speech" when protesting. But when the shoe is on the other foot, they don't think very highly of freedom of speech. They considered it patriotic to protest. Now, right wing protesters are considered unpatriotic.

"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this (the Bush) administration somehow you're not patriotic," a shrill-sounding Clinton shouted during her address to Connecticut's Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner. Oh well, you can throw that argument out the window. The shoe is on the other foot. That argument is no longer convenient for them.

It's the epitome of irony that the president of the United States goes before Congress and calls American citizens and government leaders liars and a few days later, he is complaining to the press about the political discourse on health care reform.

Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple. - President Obama

I think it's important for the media, you know - not to do any media-bashing here - to recognize that right now, in this 24-hour news cycle, the easiest way to get on CNN is or Fox or any of the other stations, MSNBC is to say something rude and outrageous," Obama said on CNN's Sept. 20 "State of the Union." "If you're civil and polite and you're sensible and you don't exaggerate the-bad things about your opponent and you know, you might get on one of the Sunday shows. But you're not going to be on the loop. And, you know, part of what I'd like to see is all of us reward decency and civility in our political discourse. - President Obama

The liberal media, of course, continues the hypocrisy. Gary Fouse of Radarsite writes: 

It's hard to put into words just how arrogant a man Keith Olbermann is after watching his performance on "Countdown" tonight, which was devoted to insulting the thousands of Americans who turned out to demonstrate against high taxes and profligate government spending today. And why did he insult them? Was it because they threw rocks at police, rioted or had to be taken off to jail? Hardly because that did not happen. No, Olbermann attacked them for having the temerity to protest high taxes and out-of-control spending.

Pop culture also rears it's ugly head as the godless wonder himself decides he is going to take a "righteously indignant" position regarding health care reform on the Jay Leno Show:

Sarah Palin is the one who brought up death panel... And you know what, Sarah Palin? I got news for you, honey. If we were gonna get rid of useless people, you would be the first to go. -Bill Maher

There is no worst example of leftist hate mongering, hypocrisy and leftist lies than what comes out of the mouths of liberal bloggers, pundits and talk show hosts when discussing Sarah Palin. They have become a caricature of cynicism and negativity, demeaning themselves and making a mockery of the political debate as a whole.

It's as if liberals become mentally ill and deranged individuals who are reduced to drooling, frothing at the mouth, soiling themselves and wetting their pants at the mere mention of her name. Because she is such a formidable threat to the very existence of their ideology, they can't ignore her. Yet they keep trying to convince us that she's irrelevant, a lightweight and not intelligent enough.

The constant regurgitation of the "she's an idiot" argument makes me and anyone with half a brain immediately suspicious. Why, if the sky isn't purple with green polka dots, do I need to be told so forcefully every day that it is?

Ironically, in their zest to destroy Palin, liberals use the weakest and most childish arguments. They call her dumb and even go as far as to say stupid crap like she wrote her book in crayon. It's simply moronic to think that an intelligent person would even listen to that kind of drivel. Adults with a sense of respect for their fellow man can logically debate, argue and articulate their reasons for disagreeing with someone politically or why they don't feel someone should run for a particular political office.

No one's saying you don't have the right to oppose or disagree with Sarah Palin. We're just saying grow up! Intelligent Americans recognize childish and nasty behavior and are turned off by it.

Sad individuals with tortured souls who choose hate filled rhetoric actually don't say a convincing word anyway. Reduced to name calling, they write blog after blog of second grade nonsense. Yet after a few hundred blogs and several hundreds of thousands of words, they have given us nothing of substance or value. The Alaska bloggers who spewed lies about Palin at the direction of David Axelrod and the DNC during the presidential campaign remain obsessed mental patients who, rather than go on with their miserable insecure lives in quiet obscurity, continue to flaunt a "thought salad" mentality which causes them to throw everything they can at Palin with the hopes that something will stick.

This open display of their inner hatred resulting from a comparative juxtaposition to Sarah Palin reveals them as insecure, incomplete and vapid individuals. Why they wouldn't hide that is beyond me. If you don't want people to think you're ugly, don't stand next to the pretty girl in order to try to convince us that she's the ugly one.

Hypocrisy at its most obvious level is vividly visible in the intellectual inconsistency of an argument that was made in support of Van Jones. Arianna Huffington wrote:

Isn't it time we acknowledge that no human being with any passion and deeply held beliefs ever emerged flawless into the world? And that if every mistake, misstep, boneheaded decision, or error in judgment becomes an automatic disqualifier for public service, then we're going to be left with a political landscape filled with nothing but wrinkle-free, foible-free, passionless automatons who have never made a mistake because they never took the risk of having an original thought.

This would have been an eloquent argument for Sarah Palin, don't you think? So now it's been proven. Liberals use one set of standards while judging their own, but conveniently toss those standards aside when judging conservatives like Palin. If it feels good just do it. There is no need to have sound footing for a liberal argument. It merely needs to float on whatever the "premise du jour" is.

Read the rest of Huffington's article. The part about how quitting his job will help Van Jones be more able to effect change without being shackled to the desk of the green job czar is side splitting.

It gets better:

Contrary to the media caricature (emphasis added after the soda went up my nose), the real Van Jones is a thoughtful leader who knows how to use words to move people to action. To stick him behind a desk, working out the details of tax credits for green jobs -- incredibly important though the job is -- was never the best use of his unique and abundant skills.

Poll results found 83.6% saw national news media organizations as very or somewhat biased while just 14.1% viewed them as somewhat unbiased or not at all biased. Some, 2.4%, were unsure.

A large majority, 89.3%, suggested the national media played a very or somewhat strong role in helping to elect President Obama. Just 10.0% suggested the national media played little or no role. Further, 69.9% agreed the national news media are intent on promoting the Obama presidency while 26.5% disagreed. Some, 3.6% were unsure.

 

Over half of Americans surveyed, 56.4%, said they agreed that the news media are promoting President Obama’s health care reform without objective criticism. Another 39.3% disagreed and 4.3% were unsure. Further, a majority, 57.6% of those surveyed agreed that the news media appear to be coordinating efforts to diminish the record of former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin. One third, 34.6%, disagreed and 7.9% were unsure.

Perhaps journalists are no more trusted than politicians these days, or many folks never saw the knockdown stories. But this was a stunning illustration of the traditional media's impotence.

 

Still, it was a stretch for White House officials, who have a huge megaphone, to blame media coverage for the sinking popularity of health reform. It was equally odd for Gibbs to tell reporters that stories about Obama backing away from a government-run health plan were "entirely contrived by you guys" -- this after Gibbs and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had said on Sunday morning shows that such a plan was not an essential part of Obama's proposal.

For all the sound and fury, news organizations have labored to explain the intricacies of the competing blueprints. "NBC Nightly News" ran a piece examining how Obama's public health-insurance option would work. ABC's "World News " did a fact check on the end-of-life provision in the bill. "CBS Evening News" highlighted problems with the current system by interviewing some of the 1,500 people waiting at a free makeshift clinic in Los Angeles. Time ran a cover story on health care, titled "Paging Dr. Obama." And major newspapers have been filled with articles examining the nitty-gritty details. Those who say the media haven't dug into the details aren't looking very hard.

But the healthy dose of coverage has largely failed to dispel many of the half-truths and exaggerations surrounding the debate. Even so, news organizations were slow to diagnose the depth of public unease about the unwieldy legislation. For the moment, the story, like the process itself, remains a muddle.

The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday.

The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as "death panels" to encourage euthanasia.

"I can't fight for what's right when I'm shackled to the governor's seat," Palin said. For the last seven months the governor's office has been a ward. A trap. She is breaking free.

However, when it comes to the point that a person who is attempting to do her best in the position she was elected to do cannot do so, and when the cost in time and money to the individual and to the state to defend against allegations, becomes the prudent thing to do to step away.

I think it was an unselfish move to have chosen to step away from the office of governor and I believe that it was a matter of analyzing the ability to continue to be effective and judging that with the onslaught of attacks of every move and concluding that it was time to step aside.

Sarah Palin's following is growing on both Twitter and Facebook. The number of favorable articles and blogs are outnumbering negative ones.

"The numbers are staggering the amount of support is being shown for Sarah," one Team Sarah member wrote. "Yet, not one word of this has hit the mainstream media."

"Sarah Palin's resignation as Governor of Alaska is a brilliant liberating move for her career, and a potential turning point for the national conservative movement," Peter Ferrara writes on FoxNews.com.

Even media outlets hostile to Palin are painting a guardedly positive picture, although they still cling to the notion of counting her out for 2012. CNN's Ed Hornick writes:

"She was never going to be president of the United States. But who's got all the sway in the Republican Party right now? It's the political pundits; it's the talk show hosts; it's the people who are not responsible to an electorate," (John Ridley of National Public Radio) told CNN's Campbell Brown. "I would not be surprised if around 2011 people are circling around Sarah Palin, saying, 'please, anoint us for the road to the White House.' She's never going to be president but possibly a kingmaker."

While still in denial about the ultimate possible outcome, skeptics and critics are beginning to face the reality that she is far from dead as they originally thought on Friday.

Larry Sabato, however, seems to be one of the few who missed the boat on this with his inside the box, slide rule, crystal ball, formulaic political scientist approach. “Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Palin is political toast,” according to FoxNews.com.