HALF-FULL REPORT 07/17/09

It’s been busy.  Non-stop travel for the past three weeks – driving 2,200 miles in California and Nevada alone – regarding my Achilles Heel Project (to be revealed at the Winning the Revolution Rendezvous in September).

On the way, Rebel and I met a lot of wonderful people who love America.  I can’t resist sharing with you an insight of one of them – a doctor who lives near Palm Springs, California.

As a physician, he’s very observant of changes in people’s dimensions.  As a conservative he’s noticed something about Mrs. Zero.  Based on it, he has devised a scientific formula with intriguing predictive value.

He calls it the ACR, which stands for Ass Circumference Ratio.  The ACR predicts that Mrs. Zero’s derriere will widen or narrow corresponding with how her husband’s presidency is failing or succeeding.

Notice how it’s been expanding lately?  That’s the ACR at work.  At the rate Mr. Zero’s popularity ratings are heading towards the basement, it won’t be long before Mrs. Zero will be a real porker.  Thanks for the tip, Doc.

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Now something that will shock TTP’s Jack Kelly to his shoes.  He’s learning this here for the first time.

The first time most all of you ever heard of Sarah Palin was on June 4, 2008, when Kelly wrote Fire and Nice for McCain’s VP.  Kelly was way out front of everybody in suggesting Sarah as McCain’s running mate.  So he got kudos for being amazingly prescient when McCain did just that on August 28, stunning the world.

Here’s what Kelly doesn’t know. 

We met the Doc above through a couple who are true-blue TTPers.  Paul’s retired military intelligence, Holly a successful real estate developer.  A friend of theirs for many years is a retired Navy pilot named Jack McEnroe.  John McCain was his flight instructor, they flew together in Viet Nam (until McCain was shot down and captured), and remained close ever since.

When Holly read Kelly’s Fire and Nice column, she began researching Sarah and determined that Kelly was right, that Sarah was the real deal.  Later that summer when Jack McEnroe stopped by for a visit, he mentioned that he was on his way to visit John and Cindy McCain at their ranch in Sedona, Arizona.

Over a bottle of wine or two, Holly proceeded to tell McEnroe all about Sarah.  He had never heard of her.  "You’ve got to tell John about Sarah!" Holly insisted.  Paul wisely added, "And even more important, you’ve got to tell Cindy.  If Cindy likes her – and we know who has the brains in the McCain household – it’s done."

So Jack McEnroe went to Sedona and told John and Cindy McCain about Sarah Palin.  The idea hit them both cold – they had never considered her.  But the more they talked, the more they became intrigued.  "Let’s invite her down here to Sedona and get to know her," was the joint McCain conclusion of the evening.

They did, she came, and the rest is history – history owed to TTP’s Jack Kelly via TTPers Holly & Paul and their friend.  Does that make TTP and all TTPers proud or what?

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Sarah’s history is, of course, just beginning.  I assume you read The Palin Potential from last week, which outlined the Nixon Template as her strategy.  This week we saw her following this strategy to a T, and improving on Nixon exactly as predicted:

"The ‘higher calling’ she gave as her reason for stepping down will first be the resuscitation of the Republican Party – politically and morally.  She understands you can’t have one without the other – which is the reason the entrenched GOP elite hate and fear her almost as much as do the Dems."

Thus she freaked the GOP elite out when she announced Sunday (7/12) she will campaign for conservative Democrats:

"I will go around the country on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party label or affiliation."

It is hilarious that IQ-challenged Republican leaders like Mike Huckabee warned her not to do this.  Phony hucksters like Huckabee are as comfortable within the Republican establishment as the RINO elite.  Palin intends to sweep them all aside, and reform the party based on conservative moral principles.

Expect her to refuse to campaign or do a fundraiser for any Republican (much less a Democrat) who voted for Zero’s Stimulus, Cap & Trade, or Zero’s Health Fascism legislation.  Expect her instead to campaign for game changers like free market guru Peter Schiff who’s running against that quintessence of liberal corruption, Chris Dodd in Connecticut.

She is going for it, folks.  Look at her op-ed in Monday’s (7/13) Washington Post (the Post!) denouncing the Zerocrats’ Cap and Tax Dead End.  Or her being the cover story of this Week’s Time Magazine.  (Read the whole story – it’s pretty good and far from the liberal hit piece you’d expect.)

Palin is becoming a conservative phenomenon.  The HFR’s prayers are with her.

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I had dinner last night here in DC with a couple of Congressmen.  They both gave an interesting reason why Zero’s "Health Care Reform" attempt to impose Fascist Medicine on all of us will fail.

The liberal mantra providing the legislative rationale is the "49 million uninsured" who will get sick and die unless Uncle Sam takes care of them and taxpayers pay for it.

"Here’s the dirty secret about all those uninsured," they told me.  "At least half of them are illegal aliens.  This is why this pile of dung will never get passed – because there are too many Democrats whose constituents can’t stomach guaranteed government health care for every illegal alien in this country."

The health-care-for-illegals issue is going to blow up ZeroCare, they predicted.  There’s already enormous voter anger over the takeover of hospital emergency rooms by illegals across the country, mandated by Congress.  Expanding that situation to health care across the board is a bridge way too far.

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You may have heard about an article in Rolling Stone by columnist Matt Taibbi attacking Goldman Sachs.  Far more substantive however is my friend Chris Whalen’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee. (Click on the View File link for the entire testimony to come up.)

Chris provides an insider briefing on the fantastic shenanigans of Goldman, Morgan, AIG in manipulating markets and getting the government to bail them out.  Now that Goldman is again reporting record profits, he’s really worth reading.

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Worth re-reading right now in the wake of a world-wide resurgence of swine flu is Protecting Yourself From Mexican Swine Flu from last April.  The London Times is predicting 65,000 people may die of swine flu in Britain this year.  It may come here again with a vengeance.  Be prepared.

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A friend of mine was recently invited to a diplomatic reception in Madrid honoring the Mexican Ambassador to Spain.  The business and political elite of both Spain and Mexico were there – and my friend kept hearing them talking about someone they constantly referred to as "El Negrito."  Guess who that might be.

Their tone was contemptuous and dismissive.  Yep, for the elites of Spain and Mexico, Zero is "The Little Black One."

Racist contempt for Zero is rampant among the Russian elite as well, as this astounding video shows.  Zero is with Dimitri Medvedev in the Kremlin, and the Russians refuse to shake his hand:

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Monday July 20 is the 40^th anniversary of the greatest achievement in the history of mankind:  the first landing on the moon.  Last night at that dinner I mentioned above, one of the Congressmen noted that one thousand years from now the single name most remembered from our times will be Neal Armstrong.

I’d like to suggest that you take a few moments this weekend to read Aeschylus and America (August 2004) to put the moon landing in historical perspective.  You could focus in particular on the section Aeschylus and Neal Armstrong.

The greatest achievement in the history of mankind was American.  We’ve been on a downhill slide ever since, save for the Reagan Era.  It’s important to understand why, why we retreated from that uniquely glorious achievement, and why we must retreat no more.

The HFR and all America should raise a toast in honor and undiluted praise of Americans on the Moon.