[Joe Conason is a liberal political pundit (pol-dit) and columnist for the New York Observer and Salon.com. And if you question my labeling him a liberal, Goggle or Bing his name and look up the articles and books he's written.]

Mr. Conason recently wrote the subject article, supposedly detailing all sorts of things about the TEA Party movement and its participants, the NY-23 election, and Newt Gingrich's concerns about the toxic and damaging effect of it all on the GOP. However, something -- just something -- tells me good ole Joe ain't exactly trying to really be "helpful." So, my reply: 

First, Joe, we are not "tea-baggers," and anyone who uses that term is either ignorant or just trying to be slyly and sarcastically derisive and/or dismissive. We are TEA Partiers or TEA Party protesters. TEA is an acronym, you know, for Taxed Enough Already, so it should be used and presented that way, as an acronym. Besides, I would think, Joe, that being such a good "journalist," you would want to get your terminology straight. But then, I guess not, if you want to "appear" objective while having a liberal "agenda."

Second, TEA Partiers, 9/12ers and upset town hallers don't hate Republicans -- not real Republicans anyway. They hate RINOs.

Third, for you to join other liberal "pol-dits" in characterizing Scozzafava (Susieflavor) as a "moderate" Republican is beyond the pale. Who do you think you're fooling? She was a "liberal" Republican, if she was any kind of Republican at all. After all, an R after your name on a ballot doesn't make you a Republican.

You can be a "liberal" or a "moderate" Democrat. You can be a conservative without being a Republican. And you can be either a "moderate" or a "right-wing" Republican. But you cannot be a "liberal Republican." That's what's known as a RINO.

 

Duh! See second paragraph above, you sirry wabbit.

Subtitle: The USSA - Perhaps Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood

No, the reference to USSA in the subtitle is not a typo for the old USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). USSA is the acronym for the United Socialist States of America. And, if we don't wake up, America, that is what we are going to get, in fact, if not eventually and literally also in name.

We have tolerated political correctness (PC), and other liberal offensives, for so long in this country that it has undermined our true freedom of speech -- as well as its clarity, and therefore its potency. Now, I've never been too PC, as evidenced by my use of the term "liberal" just now. Liberals don't like to be called liberals anymore. Many of them just stick with the party label of Democrat or they prefer to be called "social progressives," which, by the way, is actually codespeak for "socialist." But to me, whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent, a Libertarian, or whatever, you generally fall into either basically being a liberal or a conservative. Except for the Far Left and Far Right foaming fanatic fringes, of course, there can also be liberal conservatives and conservative liberals. How do you think we get such "blending" labels as RINOs (Republican-In-Name-Only) and Blue Dog Democrats? The more liberal a conservative you are or the more conservative a liberal you are, then the more "moderate" or "centrist" you are. I know all that. But, forget all the "blending" labels. You may this kind or that kind of liberal or conservative, but basically you're one or the other. Sometimes I just want to tell the PC police to get over themselves anyway. Sometimes things are just black or white. (I warned you I'm not too PC.) So, the liberal or conservative labels work for me. 

Of course, for years we've had such liberal ("socially progressive") organizations as the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and ACORN, as well as liberals in our high schools and colleges at least teaching as much about PC as they do math, science or history, etc., running around, often government funded, doing everything they can to push God, the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer out of the public forum, to restrict public speech -- unless it's PC public speech, to encourage women to have an abortion for almost any reason at any time during their pregnancy, to intimidate banks into giving loans to unqualified borrowers, etc., etc., etc.

But now...

Right now, we also have an undeniably liberal mainstream media. Examples of this are too numerous to list, from the way articles are written, to the way interviews are conducted, to the incessant comments of TV talking heads and pol-dits (political pundits), to actual counts by independent, nonpartisan "news watch" organizations of political coverage favorable or unfavorable to either party or presidential candidate, to some so-called "news" organizations just plain ignoring stories which might be detrimental to "their" candidate or party of choice and slanting, or making up, stories about the "other" candidate or party.

Right now, we also have a liberal (Democratic) majority Congress, which could become a presidential veto-proof majority in upcoming elections. Since 2006, the Democrat-controlled 110th Congress has been one of the most ineffectual in decades and the lowest rated in our history, at 13%. That's about half the popularity rating of the "hated Bush presidency."

Right now, we have the most liberal (Democratic) presidential candidate in Senator Barack Obama ever to run for the office. And one truly less vetted by the liberal media, which contrarily sometimes literally fawns over him like his handmaidens. I won't take space here to make the case about not only how liberal but also how far-left radical Obama may be. But I do challenge you, especially if you support Obama, to have the integrity to go to Google or Ask.com and check these names for yourself: Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky, Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Phleger, Tony Rezko, Nadhmi Auchi, Marilyn Katz, ACORN. And, yes, so far the most talked about: William Ayers (and his wife Bernardine, or Bernadette, Dohrn). All of these have been either Obama mentors, teachers, fundraisers, coworkers, supporters and/or close associates, some in the recent past, some currently. What you will find is communists, an amoral Marxist socialist, domestic terrorists, crooks, convicted felons, and an assortment of far-left radicals.

One or two might legitimately be mere "guilt by association," but this many? Highly doubtful. And the Obama campaign has been so secretive and stonewalling about portions of his past that we don't even know if these questionable associations are all there is. Where there's a lot of smoke, there's usually a fire. In addition to the personal associations, Obama also maintains long-standing ties, dating back to his Chicago community organizer days, to ACORN, the nationwide so-called voter registration "community" organization, which some responsible journalists have labeled the "largest, most radically far-left organization in the country"! He was their lawyer in a court case over some of ACORN's tactics in Illinois, he trained their staff in Saul Alinsky's radical Marxist socialist "community organizing" and bank intimidation tactics, and he has just recently given an ACORN subsidiary $800,000 of his campaign finance money. ACORN has been repeatedly found guilty of voter fraud in the past and is currently under at least eleven federal investigations for the same now, most recently and notably in this year's battleground states.

So, with socially progressive secularism on the rise, a liberal media, a liberal Congress, AND perhaps soon to be the most radical liberal ever to run for the office as president, there will be little to check our "new age of socialism." How much socialistic smoke do you need to see before realizing there is a fire?

I think it's time to yell "FIRE" in the crowded political campaign theater and see who runs for which Exits. And I think if we don't clear away some of the smoke and find that fire, the USSA is coming your way, maybe sooner and more jarringly than you think.

Just ask the Florida sheriff recently under investigation for saying Obama's whole, legal name, Barack Hussein Obama, in public.

 

So, Wake Up, America! Stand up, speak up, and vote against socialism. If you don't, you will no doubt be getting not only more than you bargained for but also a lot you didn't even see coming.