a million against hillary

A Facebook group, "Stop Hillary Clinton: (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary)," formed months ago at the onset of the 2008 campaign. Today the group passed the 325,000 member mark on its way to 1,000,000 members. Of all the candidates not names Kucinich and Gravel, Hillary is the one person I could never, ever support as president of the United States. This is already the largest single issue political group on Facebook that I can find. I think it goes to the heart of American sentiment regarding Hillary. A Hillary ticket on the democrat side would be the best news for any republican candidate this election. Nothing would re-energize the downtrodden republican base like the opportunity to oppose Hillary. I predict that even her poor poll results against republican candidates are actually worse in reality. People that normally wouldn't vote or aren't exicted about the GOP candidate will go out to vote just to vote against Hillary. She is the slimiest politician I could imagine. She has no ideas. She is the only politician I can name that actually disgusts me. Our nation is already too far down this path towards socialism...we don't need a full fledged socialist to run our country.

the quintessential loony liberal

O'Donnell personifies pretty much everything I cannot stand in a liberal. Furthermore, her treatment of the always classy Elisabeth Hasselbeck is disgusting. It was good to see her quit and walk away like the loser she truly is.

Here is an article from MSNBC that discusses her being a part of the defacing of a Hasselbeck photo as well as her other childish and immature ways.

Many conservatives thought Rose should have been taken off The View. I always thought she should stay on to show America what the main stream left wing has become. Scary. I know!

The beginning...

I imagine this will be a place for me to think out loud regarding the 2008 election, among other things. I am decidedly republican and this blog will reflect that. Sometimes I travel outside the current GOP boundaries; however, I believe all of my positions lie with true conservatism. Sometimes I find that I am more moderate but then I get a whiff of a democrat. The whiny, pessimistic, no idea, blame America first, spineless, tax and spend, short-sighted, welfare state wanting democrats such as Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi put me back in my place further on the right.

I am from south Mississippi but lived in central Pennsylvania until I went off to college at Mississippi State University. So, it is easy to see part of the reason that I am conservative. But, I was not raised in a political household. My mother won’t talk about politics nor does she bother with knowing about such things. My father is cynical and generally thinks things are pretty much too far gone for us to do anything about. But, he votes Republican because of the qualities most democrats possess (mentioned above).

One kink in all of this is that I do not believe in the Abrahamic god in which most American’s believe. I was not raised in a religious household so I didn’t even really know what religion was until I was old enough to know for myself. At that point it all sounded like stuff out of science fiction novels. I do not hide this or make qualms about it. I hold my conservative values because I choose to do so not because a book or religion tells me to do so.

I do believe there is a cultural war going on. But, it is not merely a war against religion by secular progressives as Bill O’Reilly purports. Although there is some over-the-top stuff such as the attempt to take the Christmas tree out of schools and the like. It is also a war against science by mere faith. It is war against science by a book written by people thousands of years ago who heard or saw things they couldn’t explain, tried to explain them, then had their book translated, translated more, interpreted, and interpreted even more which gives us what we have today. None of this holds my attention though. My attention is focused on the true religious problem we face: radical Islam.

I do believe that science will take care of any religious problems we have in America. As younger generations are exposed to more and more ideas as they grow up via the internet and science continues to answer our questions, the epidemic of religion by default with slow to a crawl. It disturbs me that children grow up to believe in the particular God and religion in which they are raised. It has a sinister tone to me.

One of my favorite lines by Richard Dawkins reads something like “we are all atheists in that we do not believe in the god’s Ra or Zeus; I just go one God further.”

Nevertheless, this blog will not be about my religion or lack thereof. It will be about my unique perspective as a twentysomething conservative atheist, who attends business school and works to stay afloat.