THE Right Side of Wisconsin Blog Network

An announcement from THE Right Side of Wisconsin

THE Right Side of Wisconsin, recently ranked by BlogNetNews “the most influential blog in the State of Wisconsin” for two weeks running, announces that it is relaunching itself as THE Right Side of Wisconsin Blog Network. The flagship blog THE Right Side of Wisconsin already boasts such contributors as Ambassador Mark Green, Jean Hundertmark, Senator Glenn Grothman, Representative Kevin Petersen, National Columnist Camille Solberg, Conservative Critic Andy Haaf and others, and will now open its doors to any conservative in Wisconsin that wants to become a political blogger. In addition, THE Right Side of Wisconsin Blog Network will host a weekly internet radio program called “from THE Right Side of Wisconsin” which will discuss the best blog content from the previous week along with interviews from Wisconsin’s political news makers…

“Any conservative who want to become a political blogger.” Here’s your chance if you’ve been wanting to blog.

Filed under: Blogs - Wisconsin, conservative , blogs, conservaitve, Wisconsin blogs

Colin Powell takes on Rush Limbaugh

Tim Cuprisin on his blog links to a CNN report on an interview with Colin Powell to be aired Sunday at 1pm ET, in which he talks about what Republicans need to do and wonders whether Rush Limbaugh serves the party well.

Cuprisin doesn’t much go for the “sqwakers” anyway, so this fits in his meme.

Powell, of course, supported Obama over McCain, whom I suppose was too conservative for him.

There is nothing wrong with being conservative. There is nothing wrong with having socially conservative views — I don’t object to that. But if the party wants to have a future in this country, it has to face some realities. In another 20 years, the majority in this country will be the minority.

The thing that surprised me was that Powell considers himself a Republican. I must have missed that.

Any way here’s what he said about Limbaugh,

“Can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh?” Powell asked. “Is this really the kind of party that we want to be when these kinds of spokespersons seem to appeal to our lesser instincts rather than our better instincts?”

I’m not a big fan of talk radio and hardly listen to it, unless I’m in the car, but doesn’t Air America do the same kind of thing? It didn’t seem to hurt the Democrats.

But I guess he’s saying Republicans should become Democrats.

That should give the country a choice.

I guess some Republicans feel like Powell and Emil W. Henry Jr.

who wrote in the Washington Post about infrastructure spending, which was not bad, but he started with this,

In the wake of the recent electoral rout, we conservatives must redefine ourselves in a world that has changed since the birth of the Reagan Doctrine.

Rout? Oh, it was a convincing victory and we should learn some lessons from it, but a rout? I guess his definition of a rout is different from mine. And Republicans have won twice since the election–hardly what you would expect from a rout.

Filed under: 2008, Elections, Republican, conservative , 2008 election, Colin Powell, conservative, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh

Conservatives and McCain

Conservatives had, at best, a rocky coalition with John McCain during the recent campaign and now afterwards, too.

In retrieving an old e-mail account, I found this post at Boots & Sabers and wondered how many of the conservatives who were neutral or against McCain wound up voting for him.

Filed under: 2008, Elections, conservative, presidential , 2008 presidential election, conservative, John McCain

Quote of the day 11/13/2008

Over at From Where I sit elliot summed up in one sentence what I tried to get at last week.

[The GOP] has to stop being the party of white folks.

He says more, but that’s the jist.

And neither he nor I believe the GOP/conservatives have to sacrifice conservatism to do that.

And that’s the quote of the day.

Filed under: Quote of the day, Republican, conservative , conservative, Quote of the day, Republican Party

FactChecking Debate No. 1

The good and the bad from the first debate at FactCheck.org.

McCain and Obama contradicted each other repeatedly during their first debate, and each volunteered some factual misstatements as well.

More at the link.

This campaign (like the last few) seems to be summed up in this cartoon:

Filed under: 2008, Elections, Political cartoons, conservative, liberal, presidential , 2008 presidential election, fact checking, first debate, left, Political cartoons, right

John Edwards

First off, I am back, finally. Wireless was not as easy to get nor did I have the time I thought I would have to blog all summer. But regular scheduling should resume.

Now to the topic at hand. No doubt my conservative friends will beat up John Edwards over his affair. He deserves it. As he himself says,

If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare it can’t be any worse than he beat up himself.

Is he a hypocrite? Yes. But I believe we all are in some way. The magnitude comes from the public visibility of the hypocrite. I believe John Edwards is still dedicated to what he has professed, just as I believe those conservatives the Left has delighted in beating up are still dedicated to what they believe.

As most politicians (you would think they would learn after a while), he tried to stonewall and deny. It’s natural, but most folks don’t like it a public figure does so.

John Edwards will probably never run for president again. He won’t be Attorney General, nor head a special commission. That’s the penalty for, from all appearances, a slip-up. It’s not the first time it’s happened; it won’t be the last.

Questions still remain about the father of the lady’s baby and money paid to her. I would hope that Edwards finally came clean in his ABC interview. Time will tell.

Finally, I would hope my left leaning friends will show the same compassion toward a right leaning figure who has an affair revealed, as they have rightly shown to John Edwards and his family.

Mankind doesn’t always get it right. May we be more understanding of those who try to make a change (even if we don’t agree with them), especially when they fall.

Filed under: 2008, Democrats, Elections, Ethics, Politics, Republican, conservative, liberal, presidential , 2008 presidential election, Democratic Party, John Edwards

Ann Coulter Will Introduce John McCain at CPAC

From Gateway Pundit

Not really- But, could you imagine the headlines?

Now that might be worth the price of admission.

Filed under: conservative , Ann Coulter, conservative, CPAC, John McCain

Upcoming Events

Tonight – Drinking Right, which happens to be the same night as Papa’s Social Club Fat Tuesday party. With the weather looking the way it is, I will give it a miss and let the real Wisconsinites deal with the weather.

Saturday – Defending the American Dream. I have to work so I’ll miss this too. There is a bus are available to bring people at least from the north. See? Conservatives believe in mass transit.

Got a note for Future Wisconsin Conference to be held April 5. Again I work that day so I’ll miss this one too. One note is that Ricardo Pimental ventures into the “lion’s den” for a forum on immigration.

Filed under: Wisconsin, conservative , Defending the American Dream, Drinking Right, Future Wisconsin