When I told the lovely and long-suffering Mrs. Lobo II that I was going to blog on the subject of patience her sweet laughter could be heard for a 300 mile radius around the Wolf's Den.  She knows me.  Patience is NOT one of my strong points.  Probably has a lot to do with my military years.  I was use to barking out orders and having them obeyed yesterday, if not sooner.  A large part of my impatience has to do with this newfangled contraption of Al Gore and Bill Gates: the internet.  I click on a web page and if it doesn't download in what I perceive to be an acceptable amount of time, I do a lot of left-clicking.  This usually results in the computer locking up.  I then proceed to vocalize my displeasure loudly and in unchristian like language, whilst smashing the keyboard.  After those steps have been quickly and carefully taken, I usually, in a futile gesture, end up mooning my computer monitor.  My monitor has seen my backside more times than my proctologist.

My own impatience aside, I now urge patience to my fellow conservatives.  There's no easy way to say this except to just come out and say it: HILLARY CLINTON WILL BE ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 2008! 
Yes, your eyes do not deceive you.  I have said what others dare not.  I say the unspeakable and I think the unthinkable: President Hillary Clinton!!!!

I know, I know, she hasn't announced her candidacy yet and the moonbat MSN has an acute case of Obamaitis, but these things matter not because it will happen.  Mrs. C will run on her own accord while the media pushes Barak el bin Obama to make a run on the Presidency.  This will culminate in a slugfest we will laughingly call the Demobat convention, where the party faithful will elect Clinton as the candidate for President.  She will follow up, more than likely under extreme party pressure, to nominate Obama as her running mate.  Then there you will have it: the perfect minority ticket.  The moonbat MSN will fall all over themselves promoting the Clinton-Obama ticket.  They will all say that here would be the perfect ticket to elect to show how civilized and diverse we are, and not a white guy in the bunch.  Katie Couric and Meredith Viera will wet themselves with anticipation saying how wonderful it is that Mrs. C has followed Nancy (Mama Rosa) Pelosi from the kitchen into the seat of power (Never mind the fact that neither Pelosi or Clinton has ever seen the inside of a kitchen.  Maybe they can get Chelsea pregnant before the fall elections so they can toss the "grandma" clause into the campaign).  Since both Clinton and Obama are Demobats, we can be sure that they wont have any plans or policies or proposals for the country.  Just a slogan: "HAD ENOUGH...OF WHITE GUYS?".  To be sure that will be the entire gist of the campaign.  Don't vote for the Clinton-Obama ticket and you are a male chauvinistic, racist. 

The worst part of this whole scenario is that the Republican party has no one to counter this ticket.  In fact, to put it bluntly, we have really no one to run in 2008.  Whom do we have?  John McCain?
John McCain is an ill choice for two reasons: A). he has demonstrated he is a RHINO (Republican in name only) and B). he has demonstrated an ability to shoot himself in the mouth on numerous occasions.

May I be permitted a sidebar here?  I do get tired of the moonbat media constantly referring to McCain as a "war hero".  He is in actuality a "decorated war veteran".  There is a difference.  As one who spent a great deal serving the US in uniform, United States Air Force, thank-you, I can tell you the difference between a "war hero" and a "decorated war hero".  If you want to find out what a real war hero is go to http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm .  This web site lists every winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor since it's inception in 1861, from the Civil War to the War on Terrorism.  Here you can read the citations that accompanied the award to these brave men.  You'll notice 3 threads that run through the citations.  Either their actions: a). caused great casualties and loss of life to the enemy, or b). saved their comrades and brothers in arms, or sometimes c). all the above.  Now, I give credit where credit is due.  Senator McCain survived 5 and a half years incarcerated in Hanoi Hilton, the worst POW camp ever in recorded history.  We all know the story: when his captors found out he was the son of CINCPAC Admiral John S. McCain they offered to release him.  He would not break faith with those with him in captivity and refused.  He was tortured routinely.  He suffered a hell that only few of us can ever imagine.  Yet for all that happened,  McCain's actions, while bringing credit to himself and the US Navy, did not cause great loss of life to the enemy or save his fellow soldiers in arms.  This is what makes him a decorated war veteran and not a war hero.  (Ah well, at least he has the credentials to back his war service, unlike certain a certain senator from Massachusetts we know.)

Now back to McCain the candidate.  As I said before he is a RHINO.  We all know of his sponsorship of the McCain-Feingold campaign reform legislation which effectively muzzled free speech in campaign elections.  He cosponsored with Ted Kennedy (D-MA) that would expand the use of guest workers visas for illegal immigrants.  He was a member of the infamous "Gang of 14" that created the compromise to end the Demobat filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominations.  He sponsored legislation that severely hampers the ability of interrogators to obtain information from Islamic fascists by giving them POW status thereby giving them protection under the Geneva Convention.  He has flip-flopped on the issue of gay marriages.  He voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment, while supporting the failed Arizona initiative to ban gay marriage.

All this can be tolerated and worked out.  The big problem is the second issue: McCain's mouth.  Ah where to begin...!!!  How about 1998 when he said that: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."  He later apologized to the Clintons.  Members of "9/11 Families for a Secure America" accused McCain of "screaming at them" during a chance encounter with McCain when they criticized his proposed immigration reform bills, which they felt were not strict enough in stopping terrorists from crossing the southern border.  Of course we all know his recent gaffe.  While being interviewed in Vanity Fair, McCain was asked about an immigration bill (that contained funding for a fence on the Mexican border) and how it played to the Republican base. "In the short term, it probably galvanizes our base," he said. "In the long term, if you alienate the Hispanics, you'll pay a heavy price. By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I'll build the goddamned fence if they want it."  Howard Dean eat your heart out!!!

Then we have Mitt Romney.  A likeable kind of guy, who entered the Demobat stronghold of Massachusetts long enough to be governor for one term.  By all accounts he did well, including cutting taxes which reasoned the state a $700 million surplus in 2004 and $500 million surplus in 2005.  He retooled the state's education system and health insurance system without raising taxes.  He opposes gay marriages, is pro-life. and supports the use of surplus embryos from fertility clinics in stem cell research, while being against cloning for the human embryos for such research.  He does have one drawback tho, and the media has already raised the issue: he's a Mormon.  Knowing the moonbat MSN media, they will keep harping on this one issue.  The atheistic media will try to reinvent him in such a way as to be totally unacceptable to evangelical, fundamentalist Christians, the supposed backbone of the Republican party.    After all, who but a bunch of snobbish ,atheist reporters know what's best for us Christians.

I'll take a pass at observations about Rudy Gulliani, another name being tossed about, because he will be a non-factor in 2008.  He has a major in dealing with a terrorist attack in a major city, with minors in reducing crime and increasing city department efficiency.  He is, however, pro-abortion, anti-gun, and supports same sex marriages.  As I said, he will be a non-factor.

All this longwindedness leads me back to my original idea: patience.  We all know that our party has screwed up.  The elections of 2006 proved it and also have neutered us.  We have no strong candidate.  In light of all these events, it would be a good time to go back to the drawing board and figure out what we did wrong.  We need to go back to the ideals of Reagan Republicans: strong defense, small government, low taxes.  We need to learn how to behave like the voters expect us to behave: above corruption , strong in morality and doing whatever it legally takes to protect the Christian faith's right to exist in the US.  We need to identify and get rid of RHINOs in the party.  We need to abandon this asinine idea of "bipartisanship".  I'm sorry, when I elect a Republican to office, I expect him/her to act and vote like one. 

If Hillary is elected in 2008 like I believe she will, we'll have at least 4 years to work on our problems.  I give Mrs. C about a 2 year honeymoon with the moonbat media and the American public before the luster starts to fade.  By that time her cut and run policy in Iraq should have reasoned another terrorist attack on US soil and her tax increases should tank the economy.  It will be about this time that even the moonbat MSN will not be able to ignore the dissatisfaction of the American public with the Clinton administration.  That exact moment in time will provide our party another opportunity to step up and lead.

The question is: "Will we be ready?"

  Everyone likes to do a couple of  things on New Year's Eve: make resolutions and/or make predictions.  I guess it's because we're so full of anticipation of the new year being better than the last one, we gotta bust out with our ideas.

  I quit making New Year's resolutions a looong time ago.  The last one I resolved to do was give up smoking, drinking, and sex.  Thems was the longest 10 minutes of my life.  Very few people rarely, if ever, keep their resolutions.  Resolutions are always the same: lose weight, (I know I should) give up some vice(over my dead body), and strive to be a better person(kind of a catch-all resolution).  In the end, however, we keep on doing the same thing we always do.  Creatures of habit we be!

Predictions are trickery.  They involve some kind of knowledge into the subject you are predicting.  They take an enormous amount of time and energy watching trends, collecting data, and talking to other so-called experts who are also making predictions.  The good thing about it is that predictions have a higher success rate than resolutions.

Well, I'm getting to be an old, lazy dog.  As I said earlier I don't make resolutions anymore and the last prediction I made was in 2004, when I confidently predicted the Chicago Cubs would win the World Series.  Thanks alot Steve Bartman.

So now I make what I like to call "imaginations".  Imaginations are made up of part wishfull thinkin', part observation, and a large part of my favorite herbal drink made from PassionFlower and Wild Lettuce.  It's safe, non-addictive, and helps you instantly re-live the sixties.  So here are my top twelve imaginations for 2007.

I imagine:

We've all run into them at some point in our life: stereotypical, bleedin-heart, liberal Democrats.  They always like to get into your face with the same old tired arguements: Republicans are the party of big business, they only support the wealthy, they are the grinches of the world, and: we need to redistribute wealth to everyone, all the financial troubles in the world are the fault of the Republicans, etc., etc., ad nauseum. 

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  Most people have preconceived notions on how politics works here in down south.  In fact, so-called comedian and wanna-be talk show host Bill Maher said that southerners shouldn't be allowed to vote because:"they're too stupid to know how to vote".   I think most people up north think that we all get together at Goober's gas station and pick people to run for office.  Well they are wrong.  We all meet at Andy's house cuz Aunt Bee makes some good apple pie.   Yum!!! That's good eatin'!!!!

  Before I go any farther in this blog, I must confess that I'm a transplanted yankee.  Born and raised for my youth in the city of Chicago during the reign of his majesty the honorable Richard J. Daley.  That name still is still uttered in hushed tones by Democrats in Chicago.  Drop by the Daley Plaza in the Loop on any given day and you can still see the party faithful worshipping and genuflecting in front of his portrait. 

  Mayor Daley ran a well-oiled machine.  Everyone from the assistant mayor down to the street sweepers were all registered Democrats.  Cronyism and nepotism were rampant.  You couldn't get a job or a city contract without being a loyal Democrat and a loyal Daley supporter.  On election day you knew you had to be in two places; either at the polling places or in the city wards dragging people to the polling places.  A third place, that of being in the cemeteries to drag the dead to polling places, was optional.  Yes siree bub, the dead of Chicago voted, voted often, and voted Democratic.

  Not that "da Boss" wasn't without his enemies.  There were always newspaper people, mostly longhaired hippie college kids, FBI agents, and those pesky people at the Justice Department investigating him.  But they never got him.  When he was under attack, the machine surrounded him and protected him and the city kept on moving.  The streets were cleaned and plowed in the winter, the garbage was picked up, and people's problems were taken care of as long as they were Democrats.  His machine worked.

  Which brings me to politics in Kentucky.  Now how I got from Chicago to Kentucky is a subject for another blog.  It should suffice for now to say that I arrived during the administration of Democratic governor Paul Patton.  Gov. Patton didn't seem like to bad a governor.  Your typical Democrat.  He overhauled the workman's compensation laws and tinkered with state funding for education.  His downfall came in the form of a sex scandal.  Seems he was carrying on an affair with a woman who owned a nursing home.  In 2001 she broke off the affair.  Two months later, her nursing home was cited by state regulators for numerous violations of health and safety rules.  By July 2002, the state had pulled all Medicare and Medicaid payments from the facility, which soon went bankrupt.  She filed suit against him and the whole mess went public.  In the whole mess was another allegation that Patton had used his office to help her obtain a disadvantaged business enterprise classification as a disadvantaged female minority for her former husband's construction business.  Patton had plans to run for the Senate in 2004 but after the scandal, sacked the idea.

  The whole scandal helped get Ernie Fletcher elected.  His campaign mantra was: "you wont see any of that in a Fletcher administration".  Well, he kept his campaign promise.  Instead of a sex scandal, we now had a merit system scandal.  According to reports, Fletcher and his buddies had a hit-list of state employees who were Democrats and started firing them for their political beliefs.  This violated the Kentucky Merit Board system which says, in effect, no state worker can be fired because of their political party affiliation or beliefs.  Fletcher and fifteen members of his administration were investigated and 13 were indicted.  As a thankyou to his buddies, Fletcher used his position as governor to pardon the 13 indicted.  Then he cut a deal with the Attorney-General's office to drop any and all charges against him.  Fletcher still plans to run for governor again in 2007.  Considering the climate mood in the 2006 elections, this could be seen as at best the actions of an irrational politician or, at worst, political suicide.

  Compared to the political corruption I witnessed in Chicago in the 60's and 70's what both Patton and Fletcher did doesn't really amount to what we would say: "a hill of beans".  But it is corruption just the same.  It is two individuals who abused the power of their offices, and the faith and trust of the people of Kentucky, for their own benefit.  While the cost of investigating and prosecuting their sins is tangible, what is intangible is the loss of faith in our system.

  Patton and Fletcher would have done Mayor Daley proud.