Rudy Giuliani, Cheif Justice of the United States John Roberts and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas baited the Democrats into acting out in public this past week, and recent information from The Planet Mars promises to flush out more kookiness this coming week that will pave the way to GOP victories in 2008 that would allow us to publish majority reports in 2009.
Rudy pulled out the proven Reaganite winning hands calling the democrats weak on national defense and socialists at home this week. The democrats whined, but at their recent debate, proved Rudy's claim from their own lips.
Not one democrat at the Orangeburg debate denounced partial birth abortion as the barbaric murder of babies that it obviously is in the aftermath of a Supreme Court decision upholding a federal ban. Moreover, they cited Justice Ginsburg's dissent opposing the ban as a "threat to womens' health" as why they consider her a great justice.
The third shoe could drop this week if the GOP will highlight recent reports that every planet in the solar system is warmer today that in the 1970s and that Mars, specifically, mirors Earth in its warming patterns.
As usual, factual evidence is the friend of conservatism.
From Gamecock's originally published works at Redstate, The HinzSight Report and Race 4 2008:
1 - How will the Left blame a warmer Mars on American Chevys?
Originally submitted for publication as "Will non-political warming of Mars threaten faith of Man-Made Global Warming Church?" on The Hinz Sight Report (link at bottom).
The Times of London reports today on climate change on The Planet Mars mirroring that of the Earth since the 1970's (they left out the new Ice Age scare of the mid-1907's in Time and Newsweek) and ponders that,
Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.
Who knew?
Well, DeVine Law™ for one, and most adults and even most non-precocious children past puberty when they considered (and gamecock only last week):
Where did the Knicks play when half of the states of North and South Carolina were under the Atlantic Ocean for thousands of years before the Model T or even Cro-Magnon man traversed the Earth? How can we take the MMGW tenets seriously when The Sun or Mother Earth itself could cause new shark teeth banks to be created in the once coastal town of Columbia, S.C.? It turns out that the other planets in our solar system have gotten slightly warmer lately, yet only Earth has man and Chevys.
Could it be that some other force is responsible for the warming of planets than man? Yeah! Hence my slander lawsuit against the Pope of the Church of MMGW, Al Gore.
Last week DeVine Law™ aka Gamecock considered adding the former Speaker, now regularly seen "sharing" with present and former Democratic Party loser disciples of alogorology, and saw yellow and worried about Madison Square Garden is his Where will the Knicks play critique of Newt's call for "green conservatism".
This week the Times online got sunburned and in the middle of wondering why the patch of red on their neck wasn't called "man-made global warming burn" if just maybe my client, The Sun was responsible, and not Camaros:
Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.
Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.
Man made global warming in any significant degree is a defies common sense, is not supported by the evidence and is a myth that was created by the Left after communism/socialism was utterly discredited in order to have some reason for attacking the economic power of the United States. It was also seized upon by many in Europe to try and increase their completeness aga9nst us given all those in Europe for whom MMGW is a religion more palatable to hedonists that traditional Christianity with all that "sin" talk.
Which is why we could only see Newt's semi-surrender on the issue as cowardice or greed.
The man is too smart to believe it.
Moreover, as recent column by big government watchdog and capitalism defender at ABC News no less, John Stossel points out another point GC made last week, i.e.
Surely the architect of the post-Reagan conservative takeover of the House after 40 years in the wilderness can spot elephants as big as the MMGW he conceded to Kerry and the oil America could drill for when he writes at THE elephant website.
The fact is that the Democratic Party has done for free the past 30 years what the former Soviet Union, al Qaeda, and Iran would have paid them to do, i.e. self inflicted totally unnecessary wounds on our energy dependence and national strength.
This all took place while I became able to swim in Lake Michigan and breathe in Pittsburg. Earth, literally, to Newt: we HAVE cleaned up the 60’s pollution mess while still using oil, as Reagan called for.
Stossel points out that:
Watching the media coverage, you'd think that the earth was in imminent danger -- that human life itself was on the verge of extinction. Technology is fingered as the perp.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
John Semmens of Arizona's Laissez Faire Institute points out that Earth Day misses an important point. In the April issue of The Freeman magazine, Semmens says the environmental movement overlooks how hospitable the earth has become -- thanks to technology. "The environmental alarmists have it backwards. If anything imperils the earth it is ignorant obstruction of science and progress. ... That technology provides the best option for serving human wants and conserving the environment should be evident in the progress made in environmental improvement in the United States. Virtually every measure shows that pollution is headed downward and that nature is making a comeback." (Carbon dioxide excepted, if it is really a pollutant.)
Semmens describes his visit to historic Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, an area "lush with trees and greenery." It wasn't always that way. In 1775, the land was cleared so it could be farmed. Today, technology makes farmers so efficient that only a fraction of the land is needed to produce much more food. As a result, "Massachusetts farmland has been allowed to revert back to forest."
That technology was powered by:
OIL
BIG OIL
Which is another justification for Gamecock's call for America to drill for oil wherever we find it on our own territory.
The Mars story also points out that even if the Left were tempted, in their self-loathing contempt for mankind, to seek a "final solution":
Man is 98.6 degrees, which is hotter than the average temperature of the Earth. Less men means a cooler planet. Some leftist is liable to use those stats for another one of their “final solutions.” And exactly what is the politically correct average temperature of the Earth? Are the homeless in NYC better off homeless in the cold or in the tropics?
Such a "solution" would not be final. There are no Martians (at least on the surface) and yet, Mars warms, in violation of the tenets of the faith of MMGW.
Where is a Copernicus or a Magellan the Left could trust when you need one?
Will the Left also go to their graves ala Columbus thinking Haiti was Mumbai?
2 - Rooster crows at the R4′08 Rising of Rudy
Rudy Giuliani is making the right moves that Gamecock has demanded, expected and seen as essential if America’s Mayor is to be the next President of the United States.
He has followed the Reagan model in calling out the Democrats as weak on defense and socialists on domestic affairs. He is calling the liberals out for their advocacy of proven, failed policies at home and dangerous appeasement policies that cause no enemy or potential enemy of the US to tremble.
Rudy has also done some repairs to his laziness spawned disastrous musings on social issues by praising the Supreme Court’s recent case that upheld the federal ban on partial birth abortion; denouncing the procedure as barbaric as well as publicly disagreeing with New Hampshire’s new law that equates same sex civil unions with marriage which appears to this observer to be consistent with his past support for more narrowly defined civil union laws.
One cautionary note: The recent Who Would Jesus Pick? Wall Street Journal interview with Richard Land poses a great challenge to Rudy that he must meet. I found Dr. Land’s logic in opposing Rudy quite compelling on the character issue, as I find all of Dr. land’s logic on all issues. The leader of Southern Baptists is a much better gauge of what evangelicals think than Falwell, Robertson or any of the other Christian leaders that the MSM have demonized.
I think Rudy can overcome character questions arising from his failed marriages, etc. by pointing to his performance in office, but character does matter, and Rudy must go a long way towards satisfying the concerns raised by Dr. Land.
On the Democratic side, one of the major developments, predictably ignored by the MSM, is that all of the candidates have been forced to defend the barbaric procedure of partial birth abortion by the abortion lobby money that runs their party. Not one of the eight democrats on the stage in the Orangeburg, S.C. debate last week had the courage, or the inclination, to support the court’s decision, and most went out of their way to praise Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent in the case to buttress their identification of her as their “favorite” justice.
Its all on tape for commercials next fall. The Democratic nominee will be on record supporting partial birth abortion and McGovernite appeasment.
Therefore, given the above and more below, Gamecock’s power rankings, defined as who I think have the best chance of winning the nomination based on developments up to now and expected results after a campaign, are as follows:
GOP
1. Rudy Giuliani
2. (three-way tie)
a. Mitt Romney moves up with fundraising and organizational superiority; quick responses to events and great speeches and Reagaesque policy prescriptions.
b. Fred Thompson’s radio addresses filling in for Paul Harvey remind Gamecock of Reagan’s late 1970’s radio addresses that paved the way for his 1980 triumph. Especially impressive was his calling out of Iran for “acts of war” against the US in Iraq.
c. Despite some setbacks, John McCain shows himself to be a fighter and downright brilliant and inspiring on the war.
5. Mike Huckabee is a very inspirational speaker and made good showings in SC last week, but he will not be in the top tier because he is just too much of a nanny state big government “conservative.” He is good on abortion, but that will not be enough. He beats Brownback hands down because he is a war hawk, but no higher.
6. Sam Brownback lost the Southern evangelical vote when he went soft on the war.
Dems
Tied for last: Edwards and all but Hillary, Obama and Biden.
We can't possibly stay a minority against that crowd.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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