Sipsey Street Irregulars: Principled versus Unprincipled: Rand Paul elected in Kentucky by a wide margin and "Single Bullet Theory" Arlen Specter finally retired in PA.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Principled versus Unprincipled: Rand Paul elected in Kentucky by a wide margin and "Single Bullet Theory" Arlen Specter finally retired in PA.

“I have a message, a message from the tea party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: We have come to take our government back.” -- Rand Paul, victory speech last night.

Rand Paul at Open Carry Rally in Kentucky back in March.

Rand Paul wins.

"Single-Bullet Theory" Arlen Specter loses.

Now, if the 2010 federal election actually happens . . .

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: If the federal election actually happens what America needs is more Rand Pauls to stand as candidates. There aren't enough good candidates to make a difference even if the votes are there!; May 19, 2010 at 6:16 AM
idahobob said...: Repeat after me:

"No Incumbents....PERIOD!!"

Bob
III; May 19, 2010 at 7:16 AM
Dr. Richard said...: Good riddance to Specter. He was a RINO weazel who cared only about his own power who switched parties.

Rand Paul has a very good chance of being in the Senate in January. Pitty I cann't vote for him to replace of our statist senators (Webb and Warner) here in Virginia. At least Rand will get two votes from my brother and sister in law who live in Kentucky.; May 19, 2010 at 8:03 AM
Dennis308 said...: This makes one hope for a brighter future.Sometime One Man or just a few people can and do make the differince.
I can hope but I won´t stop prepairing, not yet anyway.

Dennis
III
Texas; May 19, 2010 at 9:06 AM
Anonymous said...: White House aides said they wanted to avoid risking the president's political capital in another losing effort.

What happened to all that talk of "democracy", Barry?; May 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM
jeffohio said...: The image of him coming out of that voting booth says

"I LOST"

Also, do you notice the round Senate "bug", in the lower right?

Huh? Do they put those things on the door to the crapper, before he enters?

EGO!; May 19, 2010 at 8:05 PM
jeffohio said...: Maybe that bug is the seal of Pa?

Anyone know?; May 20, 2010 at 2:45 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Principled versus Unprincipled: Rand Paul elected in Kentucky by a wide margin and "Single Bullet Theory" Arlen Specter finally retired in PA.

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