After a week of election-related blogging, with fifteen days left to Nov 4, I’m changing topics for a while.

P.S. @ 2008-10-20 1058H: Oh but before I go. The big news of yesterday was Colin Powell’s endorsement of BHO. His timing, really, is quite belated. Were JSM or any other Republican to say, in reaction to the Powell endrosement, as simple and solemn “of course,” the media would merely jump on the imagined intimation that it’s “because there’s gonna be a brotha in the White House.”

Never mind that the job of a Secretary Of State is to be the chief diplomat of the sitting president and the diplomatic voice of his foreign policy. Never mind that his record will show that he willfully undermined GWB’s positions. Never mind that there is a reason why he hasn’t been SecState for the past eight years. There is a reason why he is knocking Republicans, and that is because at the time when he was expected to do his job and, yes, tout the adminstration line, he decided to speak out, not privately within the Oval Office where it’s supposed to be, but out in public. It is not unfair to intimate that as SecState he was a man of divided loyalties: to his office, and to himself, and the office of the POTUS and this is why his endorsement has to be met with nothing more than a cold, but passive disdain.

More commentary by: Michelle Malkin, Victor Davis Hanson, and Wizbang.

I take a short leave of poliblogging with a few thoughts: I think the most annoying meme right now is that having BHO for president will be “good for Republicans” or “good for Conservatives and/or Conservatism.” I think that is the biggest load of bullshit I will ever read online. Bigger bullshit than any campaign lie told by either candidate. Why is it that the ones who tout this the most are the ones we have now called Conservative “apostates?” (I hate using the term: apostasy relates to religious rejection and Conservatism is in no way a religious matter to me.)

If moving to the Left is good for Conservatism, then the opposite must hold true: moving to the Right is good for Liberalism. I don’t see anyone on the Left doing that, thank you. BHO tacked to the center-right but it isn’t good for Movement Liberalism and the Radical Leftist political philosophy of BHO’s. Moving to the center is good for WINNING ELECTIONS, but to what point do you move away from your governing principles in the name of victory?

I am sick and tired of Conservatives who think that Conservatism has run out of ideas. The ideas we have have been around long before even I was born. We believe that the government, at any level, needs to be limited in its encroachment into the lives of people. We believe that yes, there are problems that people face and that the state, at some point, does provide assistance, but at what price? Good is the enemy of Great: sometimes measures fall short. However, Perfect is the enemy of Good: the contrarian Liberal mentality to a Conservative program is that because it fails to help all in need of the help, the program is invalid on all its merits. It is not unknown that the main failure of Conservatism is that it fails to do enough, and that Liberalism fails in its excess. But heed this: in my short time here in the USA I have seen that the main failure of bipartisan solutions is that when a measure requires a method from one side of the aisle, the other side has to dilute it in the name of principle and the measure, wherever it may have originated politically, falls flat.

I just keep in mind that reaching a perfect outcome in goverment would involve so much government expansion into the freedoms of individuals that the solution breeds more problems than what was originally addressed.

It may be silly for me to say this at this point, less than three weeks from the election, but Joe The Plumber, the Obamarmy’s reaction to him, the the magic words, “spread the wealth around” give us the one, last, great hope to keep BHO out of the White House.

The Left is terrified, terrified of the possibility that there remains the Silent Majority that they have left unconvinced. They are there, in their homes, not even waiting to have a candidate knock on their doors. BHO has revealed his soul and everyone has seen.

The Left has lost its supposed, but non-existent moral high ground when it comes to the privacy of individuals. In response to our grumbling over the treatment of Joe The Plumber, they scream “Schiavo!” or “Graeme Frost” as if doing so would defuse the keg that BHO himself lit. Well, guess what? The same tactics are good enough for us, then. What would BHO say to the fact that one of his employees, too, has tax liens?

Sorry Leftards, but I have to thank Joe The Plumber for once again reinvigorating us. Last week, I was among many who felt defeated, but not anymore. This is an Eeyore-free zone, and whether we win or lose on November 4th it’s time to keep swinging.

Spread the wealth around, right? That’s what BHO wants. Always remember that. And should we speak truth to that, we should expect his goons to come digging around our lives, right? Always remember that. No amount of repudiation from BHO will change the fact that he said those words. Those words are at the heart of his so-called tax cuts for 95% of Americans, a flat out falsehood that is surprisingly catchy for so many people.

Why does a BHO campaign spokesman complain about the McCain camp “not vetting” Joe The Plumber when it was BHO who knocked on his got-darn door, and asked him a question? Joe The Plumber does not need vetting. He is the one among many who will vet the two candidates. BHO knows this. The Left knows this. And I think they are so, so scared right now.

The 24-hour hero of this presidential campaign has got to be Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher. A few days before the last presidential debate, he was able to finagle out of BHO a clear declaration of the candidate’s Socialist economic world view.

“Spread the wealth around.”

We on the Right need to build a guerrilla campaign built around the phrase. We need to talk about it and spread the word, because Joe The Plumber has handed everyone on the Right the perfect weapon. And you know why we have to do it? You know why we have to run with this football all the way into the got-darn endzone?

Because Joe The Plumber is now Joe The Unlicensed Apprentice Plumber Whose Livelihood Just Got Fucked Over By The Angry Left. The 24-hour hero has become the 24-hour martyr.

You know the fucked up thing? Senator Obama and his goons are for “the working class” only if they support Senator Obama. Now that they took his livelihood away from him, Joe The Unemployable Apprentice Plumber is now part of the non-working class. There isn’t work left for this working class guy after taking his livelihood away from him.

Is this what the Left wants, in the name of victory?

P.S. @ 2345h: If you’re a Leftard and your only answer to Joe The Jobless Plumber is “he’d still have a job if he only kept his mouth shut and didn’t whore up on the media,” well, fuck you.

P.P.S. @ 2359h: Yes, I know it was his responsibility to get licensed. But, at least that gives us on the Right the precedent to want to investigate each and every seemingly illegally present person in support of BHO or who opposes McCain. Let’s even take it one step further! The next time someone goes on the air on national TV as a guest, whether they be white, black, brown, (or yellow, or red, if you’d like me to be a tad racially insensitive), before they even state for whom they which to state their support, why don’t we just ask them: “Are you legally here? Can we see your papers, because we will try to investigate you if you say something we dislike and you might as well just make it easy for everyone. Any baby-mamas you’ve left hangin’? How about that shoplifting charge you had when you were eighteen and a day old? Hmmmmm? HMMMM?”

As is quite obvious at this point I am livid.