Scott Martin

Blog: Conservatism Today

Articles:

• Remember Reagan Billboard on 2010-03-16 19:09:00
• Obama as Seinfeld on 2010-03-16 16:53:00
• Chris Christie Proposes Budget: NY Times and Teachers Unions Hardest Hit on 2010-03-16 16:21:00
• Rebuttals To Paul Ryan? We're Still Waiting on 2010-02-27 16:04:00
• Frank Luntz's ObamaCare Focus Group on 2010-02-27 14:06:00
• Rasmussen: Obama at Lowest Approval Rating Ever following ObamaCare Summit on 2010-02-27 13:42:00
• Glenn Beck's Keynote CPAC Address on 2010-02-20 21:56:00
• Ann Coulter's CPAC Comedy Routine on 2010-02-20 19:31:00
• Happy Valentine's Day, from Barry, Harry, Nancy and Rahm on 2010-02-14 11:32:00
• Pelosi: Where are the jobs, Mr. President? on 2010-02-13 17:03:00
• Nanny Michelle Obama: Childhood Obesity is a National Security Threat; Now give us your tax dollars and your freedoms so we can protect you from yourselves. on 2010-02-10 20:34:00
• Glenn Beck on the "Progressive" Income Tax on 2010-02-09 22:04:00
• Miss me Yet? on 2010-02-09 16:53:00
• Ronald Reagan: The SOTU Speech we should've Heard on 2010-02-09 15:24:00
• Obama Postures on Bi-Partisanship, GOP Calls his Bluff on 2010-02-09 14:56:00
• GOP Leadership's Response to Health Care Summit Invite on 2010-02-08 20:32:00
• Smart Picks NBA and College Hoops (2/8) on 2010-02-08 17:51:00
• Smart Picks Super Bowl 44 (New Orleans Saints vs Indianapolis Colts) on 2010-02-07 13:45:00
• Smart Picks College and NBA Hoops (2/3) on 2010-02-03 17:29:00
• Smart Picks College and NBA Hoops (2/2) on 2010-02-02 17:46:00

• Very informative, Clyde. Excellent piece.

  for What is an earmark, and why are the pubs jumping off this cliff? on 2010-03-17 00:31:09

• I love this country. Read the comments at the link, and you'll know why. Never been prouder. The people get it.

  for Months after last health vote, many Dems in tougher reelection races on 2010-03-16 05:07:45

• Really? The last thing I want are liberal ideologues in office who don't have to worry about getting re-elected and can just vote their beliefs. If there were term limits right now, ObamaCare would already have been signed into law.

  for Why wait for a Constitutional spending limit? Precisely on 2010-03-05 13:42:27

• Many southern conservatives backed the segregation of the South as a states-rights issue. It was a poor decision, certainly impacted by racism on the parts of some. States never had the right to carry out policies that were unconstitutional. Over the years, most of that segment of the conservative population has passed on or come to understand how wrong it was. Despite that, the GOP is the party of Lincoln and the party that led the civil rights fight. When the GOP stopped at equal rights and balked at giving people extra advantages based on skin color, the Dems switched the discussion and started framing the GOP (and conservatives) as racist on that basis. Because, of course, refusing to distinguish between people on the basis of skin color is racist.

  for Building a case that ACORN is the KKK v2.0 - and done well on 2010-03-02 19:01:25

• I saw that. That's his only retort. He does that often... did it with Hillary if I recall correctly.

  for Rebuttals To Paul Ryan? We're Still Waiting on 2010-02-27 17:43:40

• The main thing causing jobs to leave this country and businesses to set up shop in other nations is that our obscene corporate tax rate is now among the highest in the world, whereas it used to be among the lowest in the world. The federal government, through confiscatory taxes on employers, is forcing businesses and jobs to be sent to where they are profitable. Lower our corporate tax rate to 15% or so, and we would see a manufacturing boom in America like we've never seen before - especially in right to work (non-union) states. Businesses would swoop in and employ millions of Americans, because it would once again be profitable to do so. Yes, blame your government. But it's for the same reason it usually is, an addiction to tax dollars and no desire to budget.

  for GOP Stimulus Anniversary ad: Boondoggle on 2010-02-24 18:43:00

• Lets recap the high lights with all the crap washed away.... Ohhh ohhh... toes stepped on... Ouch... I know... I'll look for the E-mail... lol ~~Bush lost because he didn't raise taxes ?????????? (Harrison)~~ ~~Excellent response, Harrison~~ (Scott Martin)~~~ Out of context Scott? Or do you agree here too??? LOL... We shall see... Any way Harrison/Scott… Twist away... All you want now… You have shown your true colors now so your words mean little to me anymore… Oh and Scott we have had a leftist in the WH George Bush the elder... He laid the tracks for what we see today the others just continued the lie.... Frank, you need to learn to read with understanding and without emotion clouding your thoughts. Harrison meant that GHWB lost because he broke his no new taxes pledge, in other words he lost because of "no new taxes." Which is true. And his response was excellent. Harrison is not on the opposite side. Harrison is a conservative, he just isn't a social conservative. You show a lot of ignorance arguing against his economic analysis. I disagree with him on the social issues, but that doesn't mean I need to get upset at him as you do. Free trade is not a leftist idea, Frank, free trade is hard-core rightward. You have been deceived. America was founded on freedom, yet you don't believe people should be free to do business with whomever they want to. Who's the leftist, Frank? Call me a closet liberal again, Frank. Knock yourself out. Read everything I've ever written on this site and find one thing that anyone would consider even slightly liberal. My record stands on its own. As for us having a leftist in Bush the elder, that's exactly what I said... I believe you are wrong, however, in saying that the GOP will lose if it goes to the right. Years of study can say all they want, but the GOP won with a far right candidate the last time Americans were pissed off about a horrible economy and a nation being viewed weakly abroad. Record landslides, I seem to recall. And the right was set up to hold sway for a long time, except it allowed centrist-GHWB to follow in King Ron's seat, break his no new taxes pledge, and delve the GOP into this mushy "compassionate conservatism" based on nothingness that brought us Clinton. But even one Bush wasn't enough to move America away from the right, as Newt and Pals took back Congress on the most unabashedly conservative platform ever presented. Only when GWB carried on after his father did the GOP nearly become irrelevant. My whole point was about how GHWB and GWB nearly killed the GOP by pushing it so far fiscally to the left.

  for GOP Stimulus Anniversary ad: Boondoggle on 2010-02-23 17:49:17

• I believe you are wrong, however, in saying that the GOP will lose if it goes to the right. Years of study can say all they want, but the GOP won with a far right candidate the last time Americans were pissed off about a horrible economy and a nation being viewed weakly abroad. Record landslides, I seem to recall. And the right was set up to hold sway for a long time, except it allowed centrist-GHWB to follow in King Ron's seat, break his no new taxes pledge, and delve the GOP into this mushy "compassionate conservatism" based on nothingness that brought us Clinton. But even one Bush wasn't enough to move America away from the right, as Newt and Pals took back Congress on the most unabashedly conservative platform ever presented. Only when GWB carried on after his father did the GOP nearly become irrelevant. But now a leftist has taken control and reminded millions of Americans what they truly believe in, by showing them what they don't believe in. America is a center-right country and a GOP candidate who positions himself well to the right-of-center will be in a perfect position to win in 2012.

  for GOP Stimulus Anniversary ad: Boondoggle on 2010-02-22 17:52:12

• Excellent response, Harrison. Free trade makes every nation involved on-net more prosperous than they otherwise would be. Always has, always will, because there isn't even a hypothetical way that it can't. Unfortunately, it's a fact that many of those who lose jobs in certain sectors as freedom is expanded aren't able to comprehend, and so they blame their own personal losses on the blessing of free trade. Sad, really.

  for GOP Stimulus Anniversary ad: Boondoggle on 2010-02-22 17:38:08

• He's gonna appoint someone like himself. Why not just appoint himself and give us the Presidency back. Win-win.

  for Supreme Court Justice Barack Obama? on 2010-02-19 00:40:57

• Hope you guys are enjoying it - wish I could be there.

  for CPAC Open Thread on 2010-02-18 19:53:59

• I'll be fighting with you, kate.

  for Hayworth to battle 'moderate' McCain on 2010-02-15 21:55:20

• Yeah, supposedly pretty banged up health-wise, which is unfortunate. But it would make Maryland plausible at least.

  for Indiana's Bayh to Retire From Senate on 2010-02-15 18:41:27

• Good call on the non-publishing thing, bigot. (Think you can give us a couple minutes to review a comment from a new commenter? It's only happenstance that I happened to be awake right now to see this.) I'll let Clyde answer you if he feels like talking to bigots.

  for Goldstone Report on Gaza War - Advance Edited Version Full Text on 2010-02-14 23:41:25

• I think many of them are realizing that their seats are gone in November and look at it as a chance at fulfilling their legacy.

  for White House hints Dems' talks could be done before summit on 2010-02-13 19:19:48

• He hasn't learned anything. He's still going for a civilian trial.

  for Obama will choose new location for KSM trial on 2010-02-12 14:57:43

• I try to be nice and look what I get. :)

  for Jack Murtha (D-PA) Dead at Age 77 on 2010-02-09 01:58:43

• No more money is fine, but punishing them for success is ridiculous. Stealing contractually due bonuses for big government purposes is ridiculous.

  for Republicans and the Populist Temptation could Tank the Market on 2010-02-08 22:00:50

• Yes. Obama must really be steamed at Harry over health care.

  for Obama: Death to Las Vegas on 2010-02-02 21:18:41

• I agree with all of that, Frankenstein, including the thanks for his service. But I also agree that it's time for him to go, especially in a state that could easily elect a true conservative.

  for J.D. Hayworth Opens Senate Campaign Account to Challenge McCain in Arizona on 2010-02-01 20:25:58

• Great piece, Clyde. Loved the Mencken bit at the end.

  for Taking the NYT to the woodshed for agreeing with Obama: We're stupid on 2010-01-30 19:36:28

• That might be her best piece in the last two years.

  for Noonan gets it: Obama is toast, and SOTU proved it on 2010-01-29 13:29:43

• Tommy Thompson was "my" governor as a child growing up in Wisconsin, and I once hoped he would make a serious Presidential run (he made a very minor one last year for a couple weeks). I couldn't be happier than if he indeed ran and won this seat. Feingold represents the interests of the extreme leftists in the People's Republic of Madison and nothing more.

  for Wisconsin Senate: Thompson 47%, Feingold 43% on 2010-01-28 19:18:42

• Ace of Spades headlines this story, "Two Americas: One America In Which John Edwards Will Pay For His Illegitimate Daughter's $5000 Dental Bill, and the America We Actually Live In."

  for Enquirer: John Edwards Fought with Baby Mama over Health Care Bills on 2010-01-26 19:42:25

• Excellent breakdown, Clyde.

  for Obama: Taupe without Portfolio on 2010-01-24 22:34:59

• No kidding. It's too unbelievable for the Onion.

  for WaPo: Guess how Dems can Avoid a November Disaster. Keep doing what they've been doing. on 2010-01-23 22:47:10

• No doubt. It boggles my mind that some on the left are suggesting they double-down instead.

  for WaPo: Guess how Dems can Avoid a November Disaster. Keep doing what they've been doing. on 2010-01-23 22:12:46

• We always knew how naive he was, but wow, for the President of the United States to actually express in words, in public, his realization of his own naivete... that's mind-blowing. And then he further adds to it by insisting that now that he knows what the rest of the world has always known, now he can help fix it and bring peace. He just needed to understand the problem better. My goodness. He's giving simpletons a bad name.

  for Obama: 'I misjudged the will for peace' in the Middle East. Oh. Simpleton. on 2010-01-21 20:14:31

• I put this up, but I was actually very pleased with his focus on national security and taxes in his victory speech last night. I remain wait-and-see on Brown, but I think he's better than the alternative either way... unless we end up with a dozen or so more just like him come November.

  for Brown: “Maybe there’s a new breed of Republican coming to Washington” on 2010-01-20 22:07:18

• And that it will be ok to again jam it through after he's seated.

  for Obama to Senate: Don't "Jam" Through Health Care Until Brown Seated on 2010-01-20 15:56:31

• Agreed!

  for Brown takes Democrats to the School of Hard Knocks, but can they learn? on 2010-01-19 21:54:32

• Didn't you predict a 7-point win? Looks like you might be dead-on.

  for Brown vs Coakley Election Results Update Thread on 2010-01-19 21:30:20

• I remember that. Was hoping you may have changed.

  for Brown vs Coakley Election Results Update Thread on 2010-01-19 21:11:56

• How about you, are you happy, Arkady? Or would you still have rather seen Coakley win now that we're hearing multiple Dems say that health care is dead?

  for Brown vs Coakley Election Results Update Thread on 2010-01-19 21:08:52

• I'm sure Clyde will respond for himself, but how are you saying the thought of the nuclear option is unthinkable to him? He wrote, and I quote, "You can always encourage your Senate fellow travelers to go nuclear, Barney." Seems to me Clyde found the thought thinkable enough to suggest it.

  for Barney wants to kill the filibuster rule on 2010-01-19 19:33:46

• Thanks for the note. Actually it is a little more complicated than that. The lawyers at KFYI have questions about whether or not JD can use his air time to combat the ads, and morning host Barry Young today joked about putting JD on as a guest on HIS show so he could comment further on them. It's just a very odd situation all around.

  for J.D. Hayworth v. John McCain: Here are the facts on 2010-01-19 16:00:44

• It's gonna be fun finding out. They have the power, we have the pitchforks.

  for ObamaCare foes plot for state opt-outs on 2010-01-19 14:56:28

• You've got to hand it to libs like Barney Frank, always looking for creative new ways to force their agenda on the American people.

  for Barney wants to kill the filibuster rule on 2010-01-19 14:25:25

• I agree. Pretty shady to even consider it, though.

  for Dems to ask House to ping-pong Senate ObamaCare bill on 2010-01-18 22:50:48

• http://blog.afroconservative.com/2009/10/01/liberal-democrats-destroyed-black-america-who-wants-next.aspx "The disproportionate crime rates, illegitimacy rates, divorce rates, drugs abuse, and disproportionate incarceration rates didn't begin until liberals took over the Black Community in the 60s. Before liberals came and negated the influence of the Black father, over 80 percent of black children in 1960 were born in wedlock. In 1940 the illegitimacy rate amongst Blacks was 19 percent. Today, post the liberals monopoly in the poor urban areas, the illegitimacy rate is over 70 percent and almost 90 percent in the inner city. Surprisingly, between 1890 and 1940 Blacks had a marriage rate slightly higher than Whites. According to Herbert G. Gutman author of "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (1750-1925)"-- for every 6 children under the age of under the age of 6-5 of them lived in two parent households. In Harlem between 1905 and 1925, only 3 percent of all families were headed by a woman under 30. In this same time period, 85 percent of black children lived in two-parent families."

  for Liberals and liberalism continue to enslave Blacks on 2010-01-18 22:13:26

• Actually, it wasn't true until the creation of the welfare state and the explosion of liberalism. Conditions have worsened for the Black population ever since.

  for Liberals and liberalism continue to enslave Blacks on 2010-01-18 22:10:34

• They are talking about the House simply passing the Senate version and rushing it to the Prez. "Democrats suggested... they might need to ask House Democrats to speed the legislation to the president’s desk, especially if lawmakers who had supported the bill begin to waver as they consider the political implications of a tough re-election cycle."

  for Dems to ask House to ping-pong Senate ObamaCare bill on 2010-01-18 21:40:12

• I have no idea why it's doing that, cat. So I put the link at the end of my piece.

  for Rasmussen National Poll: 49% favor Brown, 34% for Coakley on 2010-01-18 19:50:00

• Thanks, cat. That's pretty low.

  for Dean of Boston College Law Calls Out Coakley On Rape Mailer on 2010-01-18 19:01:48

• Leftist playbook... accuse the other side of what you plan to do yourself. Threatened Coakley with violence? If anything, the Brown campaign is probably out buying her flowers and chocolates as we speak.

  for Dean of Boston College Law Calls Out Coakley On Rape Mailer on 2010-01-18 18:29:15

• Lol!

  for The Karbon Kids Kredits Act of 2010 on 2010-01-18 16:02:27

• And a darn good one, I must say, Clyde. A successful parody requires that it be believable for the characters involved. Obviously it was.

  for The Karbon Kids Kredits Act of 2010 on 2010-01-17 15:59:00

• I've got to agree. That's depressing to read, when conservatives have every reason to be as optimistic as we've ever been. Think 1994 Frank.

  for New poll: Brown by 3: 48% - 45% on 2010-01-16 14:55:08

• That's Scott Ott of www.scrappleface.com. He's the conservative political version of the Onion.

  for Reid joins shoe-leather crowd: Coakley has 'never functioned in a legislature' on 2010-01-16 13:07:05

• "Because students can't hold their breath for the whole school day, the school opens its windows at lunchtime. Officials said they will also let parents know about the problem." Is this a real newspaper? Are you sure this isn't the Onion? What the hell is going on in this country?

  for Students expel too much CO2 - they need to be excluded from schools on 2010-01-16 11:55:50