Micky Steele & the The Digital Bastille >>

The recent election demonstrated that the GOP needs to modernize not so much an enduring message, but the media through which it carried. The same good ol’ boy network of incompetence, arrogantly downplaying the digital side of campaigning, needs to be swept out of leadership if they are unwilling to adapt to a modern era of communication. While these people have their uses in the retail side of voter drives, where they can press the flesh and stand atop a soapbox, counterrevolutionaries need to take the novelty out of DNC innovation. Al Qaeda is online, Obama is online, The DNC is online, and there is an empty seat for the GOP at the parlay tent.

Michael Steele has his work cut out for him, but has demonstrated some hopeful signs of leadership thus far. Similarly, I voted for Herman Cain for Senate because I felt that the GOP needed a new face than a southern white boy with a draw, but that was not the qualifier; I was attracted to his policy on Social Security privatization. Race alone did not drive my choice, and he had a certain “crazy in-law” streak that I liked. All that said, he lost as the challenger to Johnny Isakson. What I don’t like to admit, but will acknowledge, is that Steele’s race will grant the GOP leadership some cover from being out of touch with Black America. It is not a reason alone to elect a candidate, but I will take that advantage. Right now I will take all the advantages I can.

But there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon, and not the whored buzzword that is flanked by “audacity” and “change.” Right now, conservatives are holding the feet of RINOs to the fire like never before, namely Snowe, Specter, and Collins. Now given that the DNC already has the votes, you had to ask yourself why it is so important that they garner ours. “Cover” from the ensuing debacle is the terse reply, and the liberal moonbats in Congress need to string us along to feel good about their actions. Let’s not give them an inch…and let’s not share our umbrella to allow them out of the rain. Senator Judd Gregg stepped down as Obama’s Secretary of Commerce after Obama’s hope to seize the US Census for the executive branch to gerrymander the nation to his liking. His key word was always “transformation.” Furthermore, Steele has put forth initiatives for IT infrastructure development to serve the GOP, build member databases, track voter attitudes, and attune our message to the concerns of our nation, with greater interface and accessibility.

Helping to lead the charge is the IT haberdasher of our age, Moshe Starkman, traveling and speaking to GOP members about the purpose, application, and maintenance of IT infrastructure for the Party.  Moshe has begun to state the GOP is undergoing a “renaissance,” and from what he has described to me, I believe him. There is also a crass website called The Endive, which will compete one day with The Onion in satire if they play their cards right.

I am not particular prescient, as I call things as I see them. I think on crisis issues, like the economy and jobs, Obama will try to foster the illusion of bipartisanship, because these crisis adjustments are how he will ultimately be judged. He will spread the blame around, but not the credit, and use threats of obstructionist branding to push legislation and foster a false bipartisanship. To those lawmakers feeling threatened by this, I will say this: the media once liked McCain and Clinton, so don’t vote based on fear. Where Obama and Pelosi will really push their leftist politics will be on taxes, firearms, church and state, education, and energy—all things forgotten by the American public right now. The bipartisan olive branch will only exist on perceived crisis. Nothing else.

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Iraq, Gaza, South Ossetia… Mexico? >>

Underreporting goes on quite frequently in our national media, and here is an ongoing story that scares me. Mexico, our southern neighbor that shares a nearly continent-wide border with the US, is descending into what one could only describe as Mad Max-style chaos. Officials are being executed, resigning for fear of their own lives, as vicious turf wars rage with the Latin American drug cartels. Entire cities live in fear as ferocious machinegun battles rage in broad daylight, and grenade attacks have become all too common. Many cities have literally become a war zone as Mexico spirals into becoming a narcostate. If situations get worse down there, and they may…I tend to believe that tumultuous waves of desperate illegals will pour across our borders and into our nation like never before. There are folks that want what we’ve got.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120303953.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,498044,00.html

What I found disturbing was the fact that hordes of bodies have been turning up, with signs of being tortured to death, burned alive, beaten, and even beheaded. These same corpses are purposefully dumped in public areas as warnings to citizens, police, the military, and to make a mockery of the authority of the Mexican government. Online boastings of flagrant murder have filled the Mexican blogosphere; Search in YouTube for “Chapo Guzman,” and you will find videos praising this kingpin. After major skirmishes, police frequencies have been hijacked to play songs praising the drug cartel. I find this shocking since North America has always been seen as a bastion of stability, protected by two vast oceans. I fear that the world is getting smaller, people are getting closer, and things are about to get ugly. >>