The American Conservative Party

Recently there have been posts on this page challenging this party to declare positions, release statements, or sign on to ideas outside our current Principles, Platform, or Mission Statement.

One post in particular threw down an ultimatum, threatening a vote of no confidence in an executive committee that had not, as of the date the post was made, been presented with or discussed the travesty du jour of the post's author, Typewriter_King.

This response is not directed toward the subject of T_K's rant, which has something to do with racism on the surface but is really about his inability to understand that the ACP does not live and die by his words, but to the real work and efforts that the EC has put into making this a viable organization.

I repeat, you won't have me here to kick around anymore, and if my current tinkering with the aggregation feature works out, it will be like I was never gone. You see, in the administrative controls, there's a blog aggregation feature for pulling feeds into a "block". If I can figure this out, blog posts from users off the national site will feed in as if they're here. If I understand it right.

Without a doubt, America has fully entered the Internet and Cable Television age where its citizens have open access to most all public forums, that is, except the People's House...Congress. Speaker Pelosi has shut down this access to the House of representatives, and I'm certain Senate Majority Leader, Reid, would do the same if it was his call today.

But, but, that's "our" house! So, I call on our ACP leadership to issue a press statement to that effect. "Turn on the Cameras." And, henceforth, the control of C-Span shall be removed from the senate and house leadership except in sensitive matters. I'm sure a bill can be crafted acceptable to all.

It's our House!

The world is a slightly better place as of last week when a non-violent resolution of the decades old Zimbabwe tragedy seems to have begun. What is sad is that the media has ignored this story; had there been a bloody revolution, it would have been front page news. For those interested in an update it can be found here.

After years of supporting Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, South African president, Thabo Mbeki, has diplomatically forced Mr. Mugabe to accept a power sharing agreement; but one that effectively removes Mr. Mbeki and his close associates from real power.

08/05/08 Regarding Planks: Moral begets political as does Social. This is a challenge that confronts every political persuasion and platform. How will Conservatives serve a moral constituency? How will Conservatives address moral issues? How will liberty address the murder of innocence? How will liberty address school choice, and vouchers? How will liberty deal with prayer in school? I believe that Americans are looking for strong, principled leadership. The question is can we formulate a platform that will provide this leadership?

I have news for the world. There will never be, as the junior senator from Illinois put, a great national discussion on race. No amount of declaring one has a dream, or proclaiming one is filled with hope, will ever change that. It isn't happening. At the root, group dynamics is the engine that drives it, and this cannot be changed through bottom-up methods, which we practice to persuade in a free society, because the "grassroots" will be crushed by the group dynamics. Nor can it be changed from the top down, as groups are resilient systems that can resist decades of hand-on attempts at manipulation. Seventy intense years of Soviet social engineering could not fundamentally alter the instincts of Russian culture, let alone the basics of human nature.

This text is my gauntlet:

Categorical classification through race, sex, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, income, ethnicity, religion, class, or creed does not render one immune from criticism based on deeds, past or present.

If the leadership of this party can not agree with the above paragraph, I will take any procedural step necessary to hold a vote of no confidence as soon as possible. Backing down from this would demonstrate in the most stark terms it is the leadership of this party, and not the writer of this resolution, that has betrayed the principles of this party.

This is what I believe. I'm right. If I'm right about anything, it's that this is right.

FOR CONSIDERED RELEASE:

Dear American press, and international press, this also goes for you,

We working within the larger American Conservative movement hold our country's registered voters in high enough esteem that we believe we never have to remind them of the basic racial characteristics of any given candidate. We believe that with the exception of the visually impaired, next to all registered voters are observant enough to recognize, for example, former Tennessee senate candidate Harold Ford Jr, is a black man.

Furthermore, we have the full confidence in the attention span of the voter to remember basic traits about a candidate's racial makeup that we don't have to remind them.

I think that our National Constitution as well as state Constitutions provide citizens and the Government reasonable boundaries and expectations. As conservatives our object is to insist that our laws do not violate its principles.
Conservatism cannot mean liberty at the expense of government or government at the expense of liberty. We need government, local, state and national. What we have without government is anarchy.
For the Conservative party to be a viable and desirable option we need to set forth a carefully crafted platform that answers some of the political, moral and social concerns of our nation. Our audience will be dissuaded or persuaded by these positions.

By not drilling in 85% of our offshore areas, in ANWR and by keeping the oil shale areas off limits, America is seen as the world’s worst energy hypocrite and is contributing to ecological damage through out the world.

I read Jim Hoft's article on a GOP primary race in Missouri detailing the immigration debate, when I watched the Club for Growth attack ad on Luetkemeyer linked by Hoft, and I started checking sources cited. The group sourced some bills they said were bills to raise taxes, so I checked the first one, SB719. I don't know, maybe there can be more than one Senate Bill number 719 in a given state, but the one I found had nothing to do with taxing to pay for football stadiums. My comment to Hoft:

It appears that Luetkemeyer is right that the Club for Growth is simply making up charges.

I didn't know about this one, but it's been around since 1992.

They seem all over the place, throwing support behind Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and...Ross Perot within the space of a few months. Perotcharts.com? Anyway, on their front page, they seem to support impeaching President Bush for war crimes, but on their national platform page, they seem to support victory in Iraq. They waffle like professional politicians! :D

Electoral fusion is the process of minor parties endorsing major party candidates to pool votes together in the general election. An example would be George Pataki running for governor of New York under the Conservative and Republican tickets. New York State, the votes would be tallied together, but in most other states, if this were attempted, votes for the same person on different party tickets would be counted as different people. I thought New York State was pretty much the only state with this system, but
a Wikipedia article on electoral fusion makes an un-citted claim this practice applies in seven states:

* Connecticut
* Delaware
* Idaho
* Mississippi
* New York
* South Carolina

According to the University of North Carolina, the American application of the name Conservative Party has it's roots in the Civil War South, and elected Zebulon Baird Vance Governor of North Carolina:

There have been few reports on this, but on September 30th, 34 days before the general election day, the congressional ban on offshore drilling as well as oil shale exploitation EXPIRES.

What will the majority Democrats do then? Will they try to vote it back in? That would be fun to watch on C-span.

Gates of Vienna had a very detailed and positive post about us. He included the Mission Statement, Creed and Principles - and a positive review!

Thank you very much!

I should have known something was up when I didn't see a single advertisement on the site, and I didn't, and succumbed to shock seeing the formation of a local group would cost me $72. That would be trivial for a more populous area, I'm sure, but the returns from forming a group for an area with so meager a population as my county would yield shallow returns for the cost. I shall explore the alternative 'Upcoming', which is a property of Yahoo.

In several discussions we have touched upon a subject that is dear to my heart and should be to all conservatives - personal responsibility. Although I have written extensively on My Rights, it appears I need to devote some time on My Responsibilities.

Let me start with a personal principle: always act in your own best interest. While a discussion on this principle is worthy, I want to offer to you the corollary: If I am always acting in my own best interest, then every act I take is my responsibility. I must be held accountable for every consequence of those acts.

Happy news, in a few small ways.

- Earlier, TK had posted a video, 'Building a Religion', which exposed Obama's followers as a cult. I posted in the comments that it had been put behind a 'consenting adult' link. Since then, it's back out. Additionally, there are several more people who posted that video, ensuring that there will be many more readers. At last check, the original posted video had over 100,000 views.

How to tell a Conservative from a Liberal and Beyond
Warning the following is politically incorrect:
The late Senator S.I. Hayakawa, who had been President of San Francisco State University during the student demonstrations in the 1960’s, an English professor, a psychologist and a semanticist once said that Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do. Now I would venture to say, based on his past history, Mr. Obama would promise to look for a 200 foot rope and never return.

I have lived through desegregation from A to Z. I was part of it in the 40's in the military when it desegregated. And in schools with my children in Louisiana. But, this is not about that. This an observation about the spin used in the current Barack Obama political campaign in contrast to my world of long ago.

During this campaign cycle we have seen debates over whether we should have a national health insurance plan to cover all Americans. Whether that would be along the lines of some of the European plans or the Canadian plan has not been made clear enough to me to permit some research on what may work based on others' experineces. But we do have some health plans that are administered by the states for those who do not have insurance. The Oregon plan has been in the news recently.

Charisma, gravitas, coolness, and authenticity in his beliefs. All these, while having well-known beliefs in line with this party, while being unaligned with the existing parties, would be necessary. I think one man living today stands up better than all others. He's a National Rifle Association board member, once considered for replacing Charlton Heston. He's been a subscriber to National Review since being a teenager. He served honorably in the National Guard during America's involvement in Vietnam. He golfed with Ronald Reagan. He's been in front of the public for decades with nearly universal respect, while always making clear his unwavering support for American individualism.

Apparently many in positions of power and with a bully pulpit say that the climate change issue is settled and apparently both Senator McCain and Senator Obama are in that group. But that has not been the case nor is it reasonable to believe it is now after the testimony by Dr. Roy Spencer to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on 22 July 2008. His testimony can be found here.(h/t QandO)

The short of it is this: