Conservative Culture

Leftist joy has left and gone elsewhere. Rove was expected to be indicted today. So… where is the jubilation?

Jeff Goldstein asks:

So when is that Karl Rove indictment supposed to be handed down, anyway?
I???m not able to hold the front page forever, you know. Not to mention that I have some housework to do.

Well, according to the NY Sun, it may be quite a while.

A spokesman for a top White House aide under scrutiny in a criminal leak probe, Karl Rove, yesterday vigorously denied an Internet report that the political adviser to President Bush was told that he had been indicted on charges of perjury and lying to investigators.

???The story is a complete fabrication,??? the spokesman for Mr. Rove, Mark Corallo, told The New York Sun. ???It is both malicious and disgraceful.???

Let them wait. They have nothing. Most likely because they have started investigating people with names like…. hummmm… Kennedy.

Henry Mark Holzer thinks so, and makes that case in his new book The Keeper of the Flame.

Thomas Sowell has written an interesting two-part review of the book (Part 1 Part 2).

Holzer notes that Thomas will sometimes adopt a position completely foreign to his way of thinking politically, simply because he finds it to be a Constitutional position.

That’s what a judge should do.

Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire is reporting today that the state of Washington checked their voter rolls with a new statewide database allowing them to find duplicate voter registrations and dead voters. The Seattle Times said:

The database, put in place earlier this year, allowed the state to find 19,579 dead people still on the rolls and 35,445 duplicate voter records.

“It’s a critical piece to help regain the trust and confidence of the voters of the state of Washington,” Secretary of State Sam Reed said Friday. “I think we are slowly but surely rebuilding trust in the system.”

You would think the fact that over 50,000 voters were illegitimately listed on the voter rolls would not rebuild trust in the system! The voter registration examination was necessitated by charges of voter fraud in the state’s 2004 Gubernatorial race. The Democratic candidate won that race by a very narrow margin.

Based on experience canvassing, I would estimate that somewhere between 10% and 20% of voters listed on Ohio voter rolls either (a) are dead or (b) no longer live at the address listed on the Ohio database. Will it take well-substantiated charges of voter fraud in an extremely close statewide race–say, the 2008 Presidential election–to prompt a cleanup of Ohio’s voter registry?

Blackwell has received numerous endorsements. The list just grew as Giuliani added his name to that list.

“America needs governors like Ken Blackwell,” Giuliani said in a statement released by the Blackwell campaign. “His steadfast leadership will make Ohio an economic powerhouse.” ….

He also has been endorsed by possible GOP presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain, of Arizona; Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the president???s brother; former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich; former U.S. Sen. and Georgia Gov. Zell Miller; former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp; Texas Gov. Rick Perry; and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

Stuck in traffic might best typify the upcoming campaign by democratic challenger to Ken Blackwell’s bid for the Governor’s spot.

Strickland was in town Saturday to give an address to his supporters and outline his Turn Around Ohio plan.
As the crowd waited, Democratic statehouse candidate Dennis Shreefer spoke about the TEL Amendment, Democratic 4th Congressional District candidate Rick Siferd made his appeal and Lima Mayor David Berger spoke to the crowd.
Once Strickland entered the room, he asked the crowd,
???Are you ready for a change????
The room erupted with applause and cheer. Strickland went on to talk about growing up in a small town, the TEL Amendment and his competitor.

Ohio is ready for a change and is the main reason solid conservative candidates were chosen for the ticket in the fall. No one really buys the same old liberal agenda spun into a new look. Even the idea of helping parents with education funds isn’t new. Just an old idea given a new name.

???We???re going to put some resources in those savings accounts so when their children are ready to go to college, they???ll be able to afford college. We call that the Knowledge Bank,??? he said.

It isn’t a new concept and it also seems vaguely familiar to the excellent idea proposed by the President for medical funds. The democrats can’t even come up with a new creative idea and if they do then they know it would be rejected because they are too liberal for Americans.

Most people really don’t understand the basis upon which Western Culture, especially America, was built on. Often Western civilization used religion as an excuse for ‘creepy’ behavior. However, the founders of America understood that certain things must be known and certain restrictions on ‘human nature’ were needed for society to function.

Knowingly, or unknowingly, the foundations of restrictions and responsibilities given to men by our Creator has been removed so that very few restrictions on behavior remain. Without any specific mooring society is geared for going adrift. Freedom of religion was a restriction of a particular church. Never was it meant that what blesses a nation should be removed. Paganism does not promote the behavior that will benefit both a nation and its people. The opposite is true and the founders understood this one truth. Perhaps Sick Transit’s blogline says what the results will be best: “Boundedly unpredictable.”

For a current example one would only need to watch Europe which long ago removed any truth from its churches. Perhaps it will not be long for us if something doesn’t change.