AND THE REAL IDIOT IS…
Some of you may be on the receiving end of anonymous spam emails from a yokel billing himself as “Idiot Muth” (appropriately hosted at “yahoo”). Two quick points:
1.) I have no respect for someone who attacks someone else anonymously like this. When I go after someone politically, I stab ‘em in the heart, not the back. I’m not afraid to put my name on my attacks or my opinions.
2.) Just so you know, the pea-brained coward propagating the “Idiot Muth” emails is Nevada Assemblyman Mark Sherwood (R-Uranus).
Would Sherwood really be so stupid as to send out such juvenile emails and not think people would find out he was the one sending them? Sure would.
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HELLO CONSERVATIVES…IT’S TIME TO GET CONFRONTATIONAL!
I just finished reading an absolutely excellent book titled “Confrontational Politics” by former California State Sen. H.L. Richardson which is SO relevant to the (sad) state of the conservative movement here in Nevada. Here’s an example:
“Remember, an average Democrat with conservative ideas doesn’t get elected to high office. He wouldn’t get the time of day from the left-wingers who control the party apparatus.”
No kidding. You don’t have to tell pro-life/pro-gun Nevada Democrat State Sen. John Lee!
As you probably already know, the conservative Democrat had announced his intent to run for Nevada’s new 4th Congressional District seat several weeks back, but recently pulled the plug on the campaign. There simply was no way on God’s green earth that Sen. Lee was going to win the Democrat primary against liberal Democrat State Sen. Steven Horsford-Obama-Reid.
And does anyone remember what happened to super-qualified conservative former Henderson Mayor Jim Gibson in that 2008 Democrat primary for governor against liberal State Sen. Dina Tax-us?
Now here’s a snippet wishy-washy go-along-to-get-along surrender-monkey moderate Republicans are absolutely going to hate:
“I am an admirer of former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. But his so-called Eleventh Commandment – ‘Nevada speak ill of another Republican’ – protects only philosophically drifting incumbents.”
Wow, is this ever true here in Nevada!
We have Republican candidates who profess to be conservatives, only to go to Carson City and vote for higher taxes, higher spending and bigger government (Hello, Mark Sherwood!). But if a conservative Republican activist criticizes them for voting like a Democrat, it’s the conservative activist who is criticized for being a “bad Republican” for criticizing the….bad Republican.
That’s the main reason I left the GOP back in 2007 and re-registered as a non-partisan voter; I’d rather be a good conservative than a “bad” Republican.
Sen. Richardson also explains why some Republicans “go rogue” and vote like Democrats after running as conservatives – as did so many Nevada Republican legislators (as well as Gov. Sandoval) who proclaimed their limited-government/anti-tax beliefs on the campaign trail, only to then turn around this year and vote for that $600 million tax hike extension (and a host of other bad, government-expanding bills):
“What generally occurs is called peer-group shift. This is where the constituency shifts from the folks back home to the new friends the legislator makes in the capitol. The time frame will be directly proportional to the shallowness of his ideological commitment, multiplied by the inability of the hometown folks who elected him to keep him in line.”
And that’s exactly what happens over and over and over again in Carson City. Republican candidates who talk the conservative talk on the campaign trail go to the capitol and get talked out of voting the way they said they would vote by colleagues, the media and special interests who have no philosophically conservative bearings whatsoever.
All of which should remind conservatives that it’s not enough to just elect more Republicans; you need to elect better ones, as well. Time to get confrontational…in primaries!
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THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ASS. MARK SHERWOOD
So Assemblyman Mark Sherwood went into a store last weekend and said to the clerk, "I'd like some Polish sausage." The clerk looked at him and said, "Are you Polish?"
Sherwood – whose family name was actually Sherwoodski when they came over on the boat in 1911 – was clearly offended and replied: "Well, yes I am. But let me ask you something. If I had asked for Italian sausage would you ask me if I was Italian? Or if I had asked for German bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German? Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog would you ask me if I was Jewish? Or if I had asked for a taco would you ask if I was Mexican? Would ya, huh? Would ya?"
The clerk said, "Well, no."
With deep self-righteous indignation, the Republican Assembly Caucus messaging chairman demanded, "Well, all right then, why did you ask me if I'm Polish just because I asked for a Polish sausage?"
To which the clerk replied, "Because this is Home Depot."
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
"I tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once, as a wayward teenager, and never did it again." - Mitt Romney, in the forthcoming issue of People Magazine (h/t Morning Score)
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