Steven Levy “Republican?” for Governor of New York?

The New York Times has reported that a new player on the block may be roiling up the action in that state’s governor’s  race.  It claimed a Dem, popular former Long Island Congressman, Steve Levy  is about to enter  the race……as a Republican!  He already has received support from Rudy Guiliani and former governor, George Pataki. 

Republican headquarters is in a snit.   So, there may be a civil war before all is settled. 

I hope not.  Steve Levy is reported to be a strict fiscal conservative.  There are a lot of Democrats like that….but I’d bet the cringe centers on the social issues parts of the governorship such as gay marriage, abortion, cross dressing, cohabitating with  group therapists, national holidays for the native bluebeetles….whatever and whereever the bizarre from university might invent. 

Although I am strongly against gay marriage, nothing in American contemporary culture is more dangerous to its being than the  advance of Obama’s Marxism.  Reports are that this man, Steve Levy is a devoted fiscal conservative.   Nothing and no one in life are  perfect.  I would support legally recognized gay unions, but never should such unions be  considered the same as marriage, the institution society supports to best raise its children.  Many in some conservative circles might expel me from there ranks.   I would remain a conservative even though I would believe such narrowness of thought and deed is hurtful to the American conservative agenda. 

America’s primary internal enemy is Marxism.   The country has many, many other troubles as well, but they aren’t  as potentially destructive to the soul of the nation.  Besides, the tradition of a two party system has been part of the good fortune why we have the fortune called the United States of America.  Its citizens from whatever gangs of society they represent, are supposed to compromise all the way up the political ladder of success.  When compromise fails, tyranny is allowed in the door……..or their is catastrophe….or worse, both.

Third parties give us Al Franken.   Third parties make the Democrats more fanatically leftwing by luring moderates away to split their votes between the other two more conservative contestants. 

Yet, I can understand the frustration when so many politicians turn traitor to principle.  I admit to my own limits.  There have been a few Republicans who have kept me from donating money to the RNC…..Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chaffee, Chuck Hagel, and Olympia Snow come to mind…..Susan Collins is a probable…..Yet look at those two girls….standing side by side with the many real conservatives to oppose Obama’s takeover of the American Health Industry.   I am growing to like them more every day.   Yet,  I can’t trust them.

The following  comes from an article in today’s New York Times:

“Mr. Levy, 50, the Suffolk County executive, said he wanted voters to see him as “Scott Brown II,” referring to the Massachusetts senator who pulled off an upset against a heavily favored Democrat in January. “There really seems to be a void out there that I can fit perfectly,” Mr. Levy said, describing Albany’s political culture as a “cesspool.”

“We’ve got to clean house, tear that place down and build it back in a cleaner, more efficient manner,” he added.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Levy, Rene Babich, said late Wednesday that Mr. Levy would announce in a news conference in Albany on Friday that he was seeking the Republican nomination for governor.

His candidacy could touch off an intraparty battle with former Representative Rick A. Lazio, a Republican who has been running since September but has failed to attract much enthusiasm or financial support.

Mr. Levy’s move put the Lazio campaign on the defensive on Thursday. It hit back against Mr. Levy, attacking his record on fiscal policy — his signature issue — as too liberal for the Republican Party. The campaign also released a list of prominent Republicans supporting it, including former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Gov. George E. Pataki, who will serve as honorary co-chairmen of the Lazio campaign.

A spokesman for the campaign, Barney Keller, said he felt Mr. Levy’s entrance into the race as a Republican would not damage Mr. Lazio’s chances of becoming the party’s nominee”.

Comment:  There is no history that Mr. Lazio is a winning campaigner, that he can charm the voters in New York to beat Andrew Cuomo.  If I thought the political marriage between Steven Levy and the state and national Republican leadership would be a good bet for a winner, I’d have to go for that bet……

New York, lie Massachusetts is a much diseased state when it comes to politics.  A candidate with halitosis, is better than a candidate with no breath at all.

Maybe we can encourage Dennis Prager to spread his clarity to Mr. Levy.

Obama’s Decision to Appear on Fox

The following post was written by Tom Bevan at realpoltics.com:

After waging war against Fox News for months, President Obama’s decision to appear on the network just days before a critical vote on his health care proposal was above all a sign of desperation and an admission that Democrats do not yet currently have the votes to pass the crown jewel of his domestic agenda. What, exactly, did the President hope to accomplish last night? Did he think a strong performance would possibly influence some undecided moderate Democrats, many of whom have plenty of constituents who watch Fox regularly? That seems an out-sized ambition, even for a President who maintains unlimited confidence in his ability to speak and persuade.

Whatever the case, I think it was a mistake by the President to go on Fox last night and I do not think he helped himself or his cause with the interview.  Obama came across as both dismissive and non-responsive to Brett Baier’s insistent questioning about the process.  He implicitly approved using parliamentary gymnastics to pass the Senate bill, and he didn’t provide very specific or convincing answers about which “special deals” will be included in the final legislation.  In the end, he repeated familiar bromides about the benefits and centrist nature of his plan, all of which the public has heard ad nauseam for months and few of which they appear to believe. President Obama offered nothing new, either in substance or tone, that would grab someone whose mind is still open on the issue of health care (and there aren’t many left after a full year of debating the issue) and convince them to support his legislation.

Again, given Obama’s past war against Fox, the current stakes involved,  and without having something fresh to say, I would never have advised the President to do this interview.  It put him in a position to gain very little, and given the timing of the health care vote, it made it appear as if the President was forced to do an interview he would have rather not done. It framed the interview as coming from a position of weakness and desperation, rather than strength

Why Did Obama Force His Visit Upon Fox Yesterday?

I heard advertised the other day that the good president,  Barack Obama, was allowing Fox News to interview him….and it turned out to be yesterday at 5:00 PM Central Daylight Time. 

“Why?” I asked myself!    Why would he force himself on Fox News now, at this time?

I am steeped in American politics….for I have tried to figure out what America is, has been, and should be since I was indoctrinated to do so by my outstanding old main elementary and high school teachers of sixty years ago.  It has been one of my drugs of choice in life.

It is the reason I cannot get enough of Dennis Prager……my American conscience echoed from what I learned so many years ago. 

Why does Barack want to  appear at Fox?   Because, Obama’s ego is without bounds. 

Dear readers……name the number of weeks or days, hours or minutes,  you think Barack Hussein Obama has lived, thought, or conversed outside the cocoon in  his Leftwing closet?   Where might he have ever been touched by any conversation with a conservative?   In Hawaii?    In Indonesia?   In his Black Community?  With Bill Ayers?   How about Jeremiah Wright, his father figure (Obama’s own words)?…….Where would he have heard a kind word about  our America?

Try Occidental College……Princeton?……Harvard Law School?…..are you kidding?

Can you imagine for the sake of intellectual curiosity such a discussion with his wife, Michelle?…..remember that Michele ….the sour one who  hated America as a graduate student declared in her thesis….the one  never proud of her country as a married gal.  That one!!  Remember her?

(As an aside, I do believe she has conducted herself very well in the White House.)

But, alas, not the president.  Which learned old maid teachers taught him to know the Constitution…..as the law of the land?  The ‘sacred’ process through which honest democracy must rule.   

Whom would Obama  ever have met who might defend the Constitution as the Law of the land, rather than just  a mere scrap of paper, a “living”, but generally meaningless document written by rich, educated, landed gentry old white guys something to scrunch and throw into the waste, something woefully in need of Marxist revision. 

Obama is who Obama is…..a  American president foreign to America.  He is still popular, with all his deceit, his confusion, his inability to love his country, his memorized slogans and speeches and lies supported by teleprompter stands…….He is Obama the programmed…a smart and clever but   unlearned man damaged by  his blackness and collegeness and parochialness.

Why on Earth would he want to expose his bigotries and limitations to the American conservative on Fox?

Ego!  His huge ego!  The love of his own voice, the inspiration of his being. 

Moreover, Obama was to be interviewed by some  kid at Fox News……a peachfuzzed white one at that.    Obama was to snooker Fox’s Neanderthals, to show white America his canned tolerance……..canned to con white Americans he is not a Marxist, but an honorable black interested in a better life for his people…….just a good young stuggling colored guy trying to do good,  rising above all of the racist restraints his fellow Americans have belabored  the less fortunate….Obama, the  victim, will persuade.

……..”Obama the  Victim”…..practicing  the Grand Theater  of Racist Politics of his Democrat Party’s collection of the disgruntled….feminists, lefty Jews, gays and lesbians, as many Latinos and Latinas as can be fooled, union members, teachers, professors, blacks, blacks, and more blacks, Catholics and Presbyterians who dance  upon the candlewick of equality, the unemployed and infirmed, those alleged to be poor and unfortunate….anyone who is want to become a drone for his or her vote.

Peachfuzz asked Mr. Obama a number of questions.   Viewers can determine for themselves how Mr. Ego faired on youtube.