A Man's Man...

This is Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845). Andrew Jackson helped found the modern Democratic party when he won the presidency vs. Massachusetts' own John Quincy Adams in 1828.

Jackson was born in the backwoods of the Carolinas, and was a Major General in command of the forces that defeated The British near New Orleans in the war of 1812.

Jackson was a man's man - one could think of him as a combination of Dale Earnhardt, George Washington, and Zell Miller rolled up in one.

It would be hard for Jackson to recognize his party today. Once a party in touch with the common man, the Democratic Party it is now a home for hippies, socialists, metrosexuals, race-baiters, anti-Semites, anti-Christians, and the pompous rich elite.

There was a great article in the Washington Times today by Tony Blankley that covered the new phenom of Blue State secession and it's relationship to that election of 1828.

Here's some of it:

...I couldn't help thinking of the founding election of the modern Democratic Party — the election of 1828, when Gen. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee defeated John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts by 139,000 votes out of 1.1 million cast.
     That election, which defined the Democratic Party that we have known for almost two centuries, has been called the first triumph of the common man in American politics. It pitted the moneyed interests of the Northeast against the farmers and working free laborers of the South and West. It was the first election in which almost all of the states (22 of 24) used direct popular election rather than state legislatures to elect the presidential electors.
     It was capped with a raucous inaugural celebration during which "rustic" common people shocked Washington society as they wandered through the White House celebrating, drinking and shaking President Andy Jackson's hand. And so started a bond between the Democratic Party and the typical working American that lasted 176 years — until last Tuesday.
     It's not that the Democrats lost an election, obviously both parties have lost numerous elections. But never before in my memory — which goes back faintly to 1956 — has either party in its loss reacted with such venomous contempt for the American people.

The Democrats lost touch when they embraced SOCIALISM. What started innocently here in America in the 1930's with Roosevelt's "New Deal" has grown into full socialist promotion and implementation by the Democratic Party. For all of it's talk of the "worker" and the "common man", socialism has always been a tool of spoiled young rich kids too lazy to get a real job and too guilty about it to sit around and do nothing.

Socialism is the exact opposite of freedom and liberty. Socialism takes control out of the hands of the citizens and gives it to the government. Socialism takes away individual liberty in the name of The Common Good. To embrace socialism, then, is to make enemies with freedom and liberty, and consequentially, the American way of life.

When one understands this, it is then easy to see why the Blue State liberals have so much hate for our country and are constantly rooting for it's defeat.

Zell Miller saw the same thing ...

A clip from Zell Miller's speech at the RNC last September:

But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution.

They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy.

It is not their patriotism — it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking. They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace.

They were wrong.

They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war.

They were wrong.

And, no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.

Together, Kennedy/Kerry have opposed the very weapons system that won the Cold War and that is now winning the War on Terror.

Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security but Americans need to know the facts.

The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq.

The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadifi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.

The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War. The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11.

I could go on and on and on: against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein's scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile; against, against, against.

This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?

U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric.

Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations.

Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending.

I want Bush to decide.