Almost every good horror movie starts with a teaser. This is particularly prevalent in monster movies where we are treated to a glimpse of the destruction caused by our fiend instead of a straight-on wide shot of the creature itself. The easiest example is our drunken nude swimmer from Jaws.

Imagine for a moment that America has had a few too many after a late night of beach partying and we’re feeling just a bit frisky, flirting with ‘hope’ and ‘change’, the sort of vapid dribble that makes up so many drunk philosophical discussions. It’s a chilly November 4th and we dive right in, shedding our stuffy fiscally conservative policies and our resolve in the War on Terror in anticipation of eight years of fun and frivolity.

As the youth vote passes out on the shore as they do most every electoral cycle, we wade out further and further into the refreshing surf until there’s nothing but the calm that comes from having the pressure of making a decision lifted from us- it was too hard to really look at the issues. McCain was old and Obama sounded good. Now we can just float along here to the soft repetition of two alternating musical notes.

America starts to notice that our youthful companions haven’t followed us, the calm starts to wear away. How long have we been floating here? It’s so easy to lose track of the time what with all the platitudes and unexplained spending increases we’ve been promised. That music is still going, in fact it’s building.

What was that? Did something just brush past our thigh? It’s still dark out here. The water is black. The shore is so far away now; the headlights on the Straight Talk Express have blinked out from view. Something definitely is moving down there. It’s rushing up toward us. A fuzzy, gray mass looms below. We’re exposed and the current swirls around our toes- this thing isn’t going to be content with a little nibble.

BAM! It strikes as the music crescendos.

After the November election, Democrats will push for a second economic stimulus package that includes money for the states’ stalled infrastructure projects, along with help paying for healthcare expenses, food stamps and extended unemployment benefits, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said Thursday.

In a meeting with the editorial board of The Standard-Times, Rep. Frank, D-Mass., also called for a 25 percent cut in military spending, saying the Pentagon has to start choosing from its many weapons programs, and that upper-income taxpayers are going to see an increase in what they are asked to pay.

And we haven’t even seen the beast in full yet! Once the Messiah gets into office with a full Democratic Congress at his side, you’ll be set for enough political/economic carnage so we won’t be able to top it with a sequel.

And to think, I wasted all my popcorn on the Republican primaries. Are you on the edge of your seat yet? It’s coming to an electorate near you next month…

More on walking into the open jaws at Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, This Ain’t Hell, but…, and Bobby McGill.

Tags: 2008 Race, democrat win, horror movie, McCain, Obama, philosophical discussions, straight talk express, war on terror, youth vote

This is the sort of post that the left doesn’t believe exists. Contrary to popular leftist internet belief, when those of us on the right find a snake among us, we run them out much like our congressional counterparts. It doesn’t do much to help keep legislative control but it does keep a clean conscious.

That being said, meet the snake:

Isn’t that picture cute? From the buzz going around, she might not even have a black eye. How foolish do you have to be to not only fake a hate crime but also not even bother to reproduce physical markings? As much as I hate to say it, there might be a reason why our campaign volunteers aren’t getting out the vote, my friends. In fact, if we’ve got many more people like Ms. Todd in our midsts then we don’t deserve to win. I’m sickened that I’m supporting the same candidate as this woman.

Then again, she was apparently a Ron Paul supporter. No, that isn’t a cheap Ron Paul shot all you little Roniacs out there- I just couldn’t help myself. We all own a little of this kook. What does this show? It shows that there are loonies on both sides of the political aisle. I’ve never lumped in the average liberal voter with the people pouring pink paint all over themselves on the national mall and I would hope that those latte-sipping libs laughing themselves silly over this mess wouldn’t make a similar mistake with us, ideological differences aside.

What else is there to say? Throw the book at her. Better make sure that you’re recording the sentencing, though, I’d hate for her to start a new round of claims.

Tags: assault, campaign worker, cut b, mccain supporter attacked

Brilliant as he is, I’m glad that Charles Krauthammer isn’t a spring chicken. I have a feeling that blogging would be all but useless if he were to have a constant stream of posts as eloquent as his columns and Fox News appearances are. I wouldn’t bother blogging; I’d just host a website with a lot of flashing GIF image banners that pointed to his site… much like this post.

Mr. Krauthammer has written an excellent endorsement of the Maverick. (h/t: Hot Air) It covers all the bases in a concise and easy to swallow manner, addressing both the so-called conservatives falling off the wagon in search of phantom hope and the fact that McCain actually represents a larger percentage of our beliefs and values than the Messiah. You would think that positions on the issues alone would be enough to keep people from falling for the ‘hope and change’ mirage that has swept the country but that obviously isn’t the case.

I leave you with this excerpt:

Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who’s been cramming on these issues for the past year, who’s never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of “a world that stands as one“), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as “the tragedy of 9/11,” a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?

Which will it be America? The polls certainly don’t seem to know. If it is a sinking ideological ship, I’d much rather be counted among men like Charles Krauthammer than Joe Biden.

Tags: charles krauthammer, election 2008, endorsements, executive decision, fox news, hot air, maverick, McCain, messiah, Obama

If you’ve been visiting Neocon News over the last few days, you might have noticed that the website seems to be throwing a temper tantrum. No, it isn’t trying to go on strike in the face of an Obama victory. I’ve been trying to streamline the layout with admittedly mixed results thus far. So if you pop in for your dose of right-wing propaganda and some of the text is a strange color or a box seems out of place- it isn’t a leftist cyber-attack, it’s just the result of novice web design.

I’ve also removed the ‘Daily Quick Hits’ section. When I had the time to update the site seven or eight times a day it was a necessary feature so that I could dish out all the news I was reading to my visitors even if I didn’t have time to write a lengthy post about it, but now that I’m exponentially more limited in my writing time it doesn’t make sense to leave the same headlines stagnating at the top of what should be a quickly updated political bulletin board.

Despite all these little behind the scenes changes, I really do appreciate your comments and continued visits. The daily number of people checking out this website has continued to build, even with my lapse in content, and that means something. I’ll try to make it up to you.

God bless and good luck in the upcoming election!

Tags: cyber-attack, right-wing propaganda, site update, web design, website, website changes, website layout

I was going to post on this when I first heard about it yesterday, but there wasn’t any video available until now. Thanks to Hot Air I didn’t have to do any further digging to find it. Karl Rove was speaking at a mortgage bankers’ meeting when a woman walked right on stage and tried to handcuff him.

The first thing that came to mind was code pink, but this woman wasn’t drenched in pink face paint, so I didn’t want to jump to conclusions– even about our favorite leftists. Nevermind that courtesy because she is code pink, proving their continued hypocrisy when it comes to respecting others right to free speech.

That code pink tried to pull a stunt doesn’t surprise me. What does annoy me is that no one seems to have the ability to keep unauthorized people from getting close enough to spit on our public figures. I’m not speaking just on the right, though it goes without saying that the left is often the perpetrator in cases like this, but for all our public officials. Does security mean nothing anymore?

There were the would-be stagecrashers at the RNC. No one seemed to worried that two people almost made it onto the stage. This woman was carrying handcuffs, but what if it had been something more dangerous? I’m not accusing code pink of planning violence, but if they’ve done a single thing in their asinine quest for attention, it has been to shine light on how poor our country’s security apparatus is. A far cry from big brother, the government can’t even keep a security perimeter. Of course, Rove is no longer in the government’s employ but still. It’s just another example from the last eight years.

Could we please either prosecute the people who do these acts or at least anticipate them? When will we wake up, after something truly horrible happens? Typical.

Tags: big brother, code pink, conclusions, face paint, far cry, free speech, handcuffs, hot air, hypocrisy, karl rove, leftists, mortgage bankers, perpetrator, pink face, public officials, respecting others, RNC, security apparatus, security perimeter, single thing, violence

If you find yourself considering the sort of action that I’ve got linked below, then you probably need to spend more time sitting on the couch watching ‘Friends’ or ‘Frasier’ re-runs rather than participating in our political process.

The first example comes with video from Hot Air. I’m all for exposing Obama as a socialist shill… or even questioning just how mainstream Christianity the message from his Trinity church has been, but there’s no reason to widely staple/slander a massive religion to an empty suit in order to disparage both.

The second is just another example of the long line of vandalism that seems to be more popular on the left. Be it eco-terrorists or anti-war protesters, you can be sure that they’re happy to violate other people’s freedom or property while trumpeting the rights to their own.

If you’re up for that sort of thing, try something else. Rent ‘Planet of the Apes’ or do something equally worthless like start your own blog.

It’s very therapeutic.

Tags: anti war protesters, freedom, hot air, mainstream christianity, Obama, planet of the apes, terrorists, trinity church, vandalism

Call it a Freudian slip or the divine interceding to put words in our Maverick’s mouth, John McCain christened Barack Obama ‘Senator Government’ tonight. I think it’s a moniker that suits our would-be socialist Messiah just fine. Maybe the Obama campaign will be confident enough to just adopt the truth in their propaganda posters in the final days of the race…

Recollecting on it, McCain hasn’t been awake enough lately to toss out a gem that good by design so it must’ve been a mistake. Ah well, a man can dream of a worthy candidate to pull the lever for.

Apparently I’m not the only one who spilled their popcorn over this one.

As for the debate itself? Everyone in the post-debate spin seems to be under the delusional impression that our favorite Maverick™ could have said or done anything to merit the media calling it a win or a ‘game changer’ for him. Obama could have declared that he was replacing Biden with Ayers tonight and it wouldn’t have made a difference in the media template. We’ll just have to wait and see what the American public does in November.

Tags: barack obama, freudian slip, hasn, john mccain, maverick, messiah, mistake, moniker, propaganda posters, senator government, socialist, truth, worthy candidate