Collins Report

By John F. Allen

I do not support John McCain. Speaking strictly politically, I despise almost everything the Senator stands for save for his support for the war on Terror, his support for our troops and his pro life positions. There really is little else for a grass roots conservative as I am to like about John McCain. On Tuesday I will be voting for Mitt Romney.

Nevertheless, at this point McCain seems likely to become the GOP’s nominee. He has momentum if not money. He has free press coverage, if very little grass roots conservative support. His positions repulse a huge segment of registered Republicans. How is it that John McCain, the man who sold out our rights of free speech, tried to give amnesty and citizenship to illegal aliens and led the “Gang of 14” looks like the favorite to win our Republican nomination?

Two reasons

Contrary to what most of us believe, there are very few truly “closed” primaries across the country. Indeed on Super Tuesday about 2/3 of the available delegates will come from states where voters who are not Republicans can and will vote in GOP “open” primaries. They are proven McCain voters. Yet of all the exit poll questions asked, we have not heard this one: “Do you regularly vote in Republican primaries?”

Answered would probably provide grounds to recognize that maybe for the first time in our primary history, more Republicans are voting on emotion then reason. They fear and hate the idea of a second Clinton Administration. In the past these emotion driven Republicans left primaries to us, those who think things through. Now because of Clinton hatred some are showing up to cast their very first primary vote for McCain because they will vote for anyone they hear can beat her.

Registered Republicans, who don’t follow politics but usually just vote straight Republican in general elections, are seemingly being joined by Independents and even Democrats voting in our primaries. They don’t care that MCain is himself a liberal with a few conservative features. They want to rid America of the stain of the Clintons and the rest be damned. Thus the damage done by Bill Clinton will keep hurting America for years to come through the results this year’s election.

America will be forced to choose between two liberals, McCain or Clinton (Obama will not be the Democratic nominee. America will not elect a Black liberal Muslim, as he will be seen).

Sadly in November McCain will win but America will lose. Make no mistake, the numbers are very clear. Thef hatred for Hillary Clinton runs deep. Polls regularly show between 45 and 52% would never vote for her. Many of those people must be Democrats, as evidenced by the startlingly high 17% of Democrats who say they would use their vote to stop her from becoming president.

Talk about this being a “close race” for McCain will be just that, talk. America basically hates Hillary Clinton. If Obama is the nominee he will take a worse beating. A Black man perceived as a Muslim by an electorate who is concerned with security will certainly be rejected.

Unfortunately John McCain seems to be the favorite to win now and win in November. To blunt this danger, grass roots conservatives, must work to elect as many true conservatives to Congress possible. Only by doing so can we save America from our “choice” John McCain.

By the way, those who think the media can sway voters away from supporting McCain and back to either Clinton or Obama after both sides have made their nomination, don’t understand the 45 to 52% and 17% numbers. This is 2008, not 1996. Thew media just doesn’t have that kind of power anymore. The only way Hillary Clinton wins if conservatives stay home.In the general, I will hold his nose and vote against Clinton. I will not stay home.

By John F. Allen

Saturday’s primary showed us who the real Archie and Edith Bunkers are; rank and file white Democrats.

From 1971 to 1979 the most watched television show was All in the family. The show featured a bigoted WASP named Archie Bunker who lived with his family at 704 Hauser Street in Queens. Archie basically hated everything that wasn’t just to his liking in the America of his day. He was the quintessential “angry white man” and of course he was a Reagan Democrat waiting to happen. Although the portrait of Archie as a terrible person was supposed to revolt viewers, the truth was that many people saw themselves in him and were actually happy with what they saw.

While Archie’s registration is never divulged, simple deduction would make a very strong case that he was a Democrat. Consider these features of his make up: White male, living in New York City at a time when 70% of the town was registered Democrat, doing manual labor, afraid of economic competition from any minority, living a lower middle class existence. If Archie wasn’t a Democrat, nobody was.

Archie was in many ways a timeless character. He was the driving force behind the Jim Crow laws. He was the filibustering Southern Democratic Senator trying to stop the 1965 Civil Rights act. He voted in Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary.

Archie’s creator Norman Lear a liberal’s liberal, probably thought his character was showing the world what a Republican was. But those who watched the show, as I did, never saw him as anything but the average white Democrat who lived next door.

In South Carolina Archie showed himself again. He made it very clear that although he’d rather stay home, when presented with the choice, he would actually vote for “the colored guy” instead of a woman. The exit polls show just 18% of voters were white males.

Archie’s wife Edith wasn’t too enthused about the field either. She made up just 25% of the turn out. Look at how Archie and Edith voted. They just couldn’t support either the “colored guy” or “a woman.”

The Bunkers voted for John Edwards; 45% for Archie and 36% for Edith. If Edwards could these numbers from all groups in all primaries he would be a major player. Of course he may yet, as the process moves through the South where the Bunker Democrats live.

The Archie Bunker’s dissatisfaction with the results was evident. Fully 23% were not satisfied. That’s a very large number, but not a surprising one. Those of us who have watched the Democrats for decades have always known The Archie Bunkers were there, just subsurface. Now Archie and Edith are showing up on Hauser Streets all over the country. Let’s just sit back and watch the fun as the media squirm trying to get them “stifle” themselves.

by John F. Allen
Well let’s see, the Democrats will end up with either the most hated presidential candidate in American history. That is not merely a Freeper’s opinion but the indication to be gleaned from a series of polls asking “Would you vote for Hillary Clinton under any circumstances?” which revealed that between 45 and 52% say “No”. Now of course we have not heard this question asked recently and we are not likely to hear it asked anytime soon. Why? Because if Zogby of Rasmussen or Gallup or Pew asked the question they would have to reveal the answer. None of these firms wants to kill the “excitement” of a presidential race even if it doesn’t actually exist. No one, not even a Clinton can give up 45% BEFORE day one and win.
Now the other likely Democratic nominee is a man who will, because of the truth that in politics perception is reality, be seen as a Black Muslim. Both are deeply socialist. America will not elect either one. Moreover, the push poll efforts to resurrect the 11% approval ratings for the Democrat controlled Congress will never be able to push it up to even 30%. The GOP lost the congress with a 36% approval rating. Americans are not as stupid as the media wishes they were. The Democrats will be blamed for the economic problems. Republican candidates will fill the air with graphics showing the economic numbers before the Democrats and after the Democrats took over.
This is NOT to say we will retake the House or the Senate. It is to say the presidency is ours to lose and that there is virtually no chance the Democrats will pick up seats in the House. They may lose just a few but picking up seating is not in the cards. People get angry in bad economic times and they vote accordingly. If Pelosi was unable to do anything with the margin she has now, she will be able to do nothing with fewer members. I have no idea how the senate races will turn out save to say we will win Landrieu’s seat and hold Coleman’s. The indications are then that Nancy Pelosi will end up as the most inept Speaker in memory and will be a four year lame duck if some other Democrat doesn’t save her from this fate and take the job she will willingly give up for “health and family” reasons. Harry Reid will not be the Senate Leader this time next year. He has been so ineffective and so vulnerable to investigation that it is impossible to see how the rest of his caucus lets him remain in that position.
McCain is a long way from the nomination. Let’s have faith that the grassroots Republicans that stopped Miers and amnesty and got rid of Martinez will step up and stop him. I believe we will.

By John F. Allen
As conservatives our choice for president has to be Fred Thompson. But this is only half of the equation. Both McCain and Huckabee are both very suspect on the issue of illegal aliens. Here are some very sobering facts about the damage we have already suffered from our de facto open borders policy.

Nearly One Million Sex Crimes have been committed by illegal immigrants in the United States. http://www.drdsk.com/

Illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.

3 million dollars a day are spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

90 billion dollars a year are spent on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. 200 billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

12 billion dollars a year [on] school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! 17 billion a year.. for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

During .. 2005 … 4 to 10 million illegals [snuck in as many as] 19,500… from Terrorist Countries [bringing] millions of pounds of drugs ….The National Policy Institute estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between 206 and 230 billion dollars or an average cost of between 41 and 46 billion dollars annually over a five year period.

http://.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?=deportation

2.2 billion dollars a year are spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. 2.5 billion dollars a year are spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

11 billion to 22 billion dollars are spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8

By John F. Allen
One of the facts of political life is that whomever we pick as our next president will be something less than the ideal we hold for our national leaders. This is not to say that we should not push our field of Republican candidates as hard as we can to get the best man we can. This is to soberly consider that we must make decisions or decisions will be made for us. I’ve never been a “none of the above” fan. That’s no better than staying home.

As many of you, I have sat back waiting for Ronald Reagan to figuratively reappear. I’m a New Yorker who lost two friends in the 9-11 sneak attack. Because of that I started out as a Rudy supporter. I wanted him to be the man I could back. I have met him one to one a few times and liked what I saw. I also have a friend who was steam rolled by the viciousness of Rudy and destroyed. I was willing to even look past that (surprisingly my friend himself was willing to do so as will first).

Over the past weeks, I’ve seen Rudy has attributes I like that we can get from others who don’t have the negatives Rudy brings with him. Pro life and pro real marriage are important issues to me, but national security and border control are essential. I see control of our borders as a subset of national security. Nevertheless, Fred Thompson is better than Rudy on illegal aliens and has as good a gasp of the importance of national security. More than this Fred is 100% pro life. That let’s Rudy out for me.

I believe Mitt Romney is a good decent man who said and did a few things as governor of a very blue state that he could possibly be given a pass for. But the reality of today’s Republican Party is that the Evangelical Christians can destroy those they don’t like and they don’t like this good man.

Huckabee is a fraud and only different from Bill Clinton in that he is pro life. But he is pro tax and willing to spend our money to cater to illegal alien invaders. His pro life position is not enough to overcome his other shortcomings.

Like 95% of the true conservative base, I totally distrust John McCain. He can not be trusted with our money ( lost his understanding of the value of tax cuts), our national security ( he badmouthed Gitmo) our borders ( he is an open border supporter and an amnesty supporter) or our 1st amendment rights ( McCain Feingold).

Ron Paul is supported by the Klan and people like that. He wants to surrender in Iraq and is in a class with McCain.

This leaves Fred Thompson. By no means is Fred Thompson a perfect candidate. But he has no major baggage save for things manufactured by the media. The Democrats are on their way to nominate either a Black Muslim, the most hated candidate in the field in Hillary Clinton, or John Edwards who is a socialist in the George McGovern mold. All are 100% socialist. All are very beatable targets. By running a relatively blemish free man who is much more conservative than not, we can hold the White House.

Thompson’s positions
It makes little difference which issue is the most important to you, without a strong secure American military to guard our way of life all other issues will fade into insignificance. Fred Thompson is a man who understands that Al Qaeda will destroy America if we try talking to them instead of fighting them. He understands that if your issue is pro life you’ll get death, death, and more death. There will be no abortions if we lose or country. Terrorists won’t allow abortions; they’ll just kill the non Islamist parents. Thompson gets the issue of a strong America, big time.
Thompson understands the need to stave the federal spending beast. He will open the government’s books to head off the crisis we know is coming. He’s been there. He has learned the Washington- speak about budgets. He has a young family with an older wiser mind. Every night he sees reminders of just how important it is to get these next four years right.

Fred is not afraid to speak the truth about the tax code that has become our master over the past forty years. Like others he wants fundamental tax code reforms, but he knows that’s not enough. Fred wants to rebuild the IRS to finally make it serve us. This is no small issue. The US tax code is out of control and we know it. Fred wants to take it on because he understands that.
The first thing Fred has to say about healthcare is that America has the best system of healthcare in the world. Starting from that basic position we can be sure that he will not fall for the blather about 47 million uninsured Americans. He knows we can do better but he knows if we did nothing we could get along just fine. Thompson has not said so, but he seems to recognize that a huge portion of the “47 million uninsured American” are illegal aliens. As a believer in the power of the free market, Thompson wants to turn it loose on the medical services delivery system.
Fred has the total support of the leading Pro life organizations in the nation. He is for traditional marriage and freedom of religious practice, and giving the states the responsibly to insure these things. If you think the federal government should enforce anti gay marriage laws you disagree with Fred.
Fred Thompson is against open borders and amnesty for those who sneak into our nation uninvited or approved. He understands that America is our home and we and only we can decide who comes in and who does not come into our home. Fred will violate states rights when it comes to “sanctuary cities.” He will use the power of the presidency to end “sanctuary cities.” If you are more concerned with states right than kicking out illegal alien invaders, you and Fred disagree. Fred gets it on illegals. Fred will insure these things by “appointing strict constructionist judges who will interpret the law, not impose their views on us by legislating from the bench,” as Fred has said on his website.
Fred is pro choice on one issue: education. He wants parents to choose the schools that educate their children through a voucher system and charter schools. He understands that federal money in our schools means federal control of our schools. He wants transparency in our schools. Those of us living in big cities share Fred’s understanding of how important this can be.

A note of caution
On the issue of energy security Fred is basically fuzzy and actually needs a good kick in the butt to get him to where we need him to be. One hundred dollar per barrel oil is the direct result of Democrat and rino policies that have crippled us for far too long. Unfortunately the best we can say here is that we will be faced with an easier task getting Fred on board for what has to be done than most others in the field. He is still talking mumbo jumbo on energy security, and his talk about “reducing demand” and “reducing green house gases (read global warming ) which is disguised as “C O2 emissions” makes me nervous, but we have to work on a few things and obviously this is one of them. As I have said, by no means is Fred a perfect candidate. He is however head and shoulders above the rest.
Fred Thompson strongly supports the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. He recognizes that taking guns away from lawful Americans is wrong and not something he will engage in or allow. Thompson wants strict enforcement of laws against unlawful use of firearms.

The return of power to Congressional liberals will bring many changes. Among them will be the reemergence of the Gay agenda. These people have been biding their time, waiting for their chance to impose their will on America, and now they have it. The worst elements of the Gay agenda are as follows.

ENDA: The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, ENDA, will ban job discrimination in situations of private employment based on sexual orientation and gender identity. ENDA would threaten The Boy Scouts and other such groups whose functions place adults in close proximity to innocent children. While no evidence exists that establishes that all gays are child molesters, available data suggests that an inordinate percentage of child molesters ( perhaps 30% ) are gay. Those that would argue the safety of putting gays in charge of a troop of 12 year old boys have to overcome the obvious dangers gay Scout Masters pose. The Boy Scouts have already fought and won this fight in B.S.A. vs. Dale. ENDA is a backdoor to the eventual destruction of this America institution.

ENDA would force individuals who hold views that homosexuals should not be allow unsupervised access to children, to put their concerns aside or not be allowed to conduct their business. ENDA would force anyone conducting a business such as a day care center to hire persons known to be homosexuals living a lifestyle contrary to what they believe is honest and upright. Worst still it would require “blind hiring” because questions about an applicants personal life styles would be forbidden by the federal government.

H.R.1059 No restrictions on Gays in the Military

We thought putting gays in our military ranks was a settled issue. It’s not. HR 1059 would force our Armed Forces to replace their current policy concerning homosexuals, referred to as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, with a policy of unfettered openness as regards gay soldiers sailors and airmen.

The Uniting American Families Act
The Uniting American Families Act, would allow U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents
to sponsor their foreign born gay partners for immigration benefits to the U.S.
The main sponsors of this attempt to import more homosexuals are, of course, Democrats. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) are carrying the ball for this outrage.
Under this bill, individual homosexuals will be give the power to bring anyone they choose into America. They only have to attest to the person being a “permanent partner”. How long it will be before “committed permanent partners” whose relationship started in a country that allows polygamy are allowed in is anybody’s guess.

Defining a “permanent partner”
The UAFA, says that to qualified “permanent partners” must be in a relationship with another adult in which both parties intend a life-long commitment; (b) financial interdependence; (c) exclusivity; (d) inability to marry in a manner recognized by the INS; and (e) absence of close blood relationship. “Intend a life-long commitment”? Suspected Immigration law “dodging” marriages must be intact for at least three years. Those that dissolve before three years can lead to the deportation of the immigrant partner. Does anyone older than 6 believe that “gay” Immigration law marriages would ever be challenged?

The Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act and
Domestic Partner Health Benefits Equity Act
Currently, IRS law does not require, actually legally married employees to pay taxes on contributions made by their employers to health insurance plans they benefit from. On the other hand, employees not truly married, but holding themselves out to be, such as those in gay “marriages” are required to do so. This is another benefit demand from gays that they are not entitled to under current law. Changing our laws to suit this small group will send us down a path that will be filed with demands from a multitude of other sub-groups.

Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act
This act would provide fringe benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. It would be an exercise in make believe, that is, “ make believe these people are married so we can give them benefits as if they actually are married and everyone will feel so good”. The beneficiaries of this bill would include Gay, as well as heterosexual domestic partners. They would enjoy benefits such as, survivor annuities, health insurance, life insurance, and compensation for work-related injuries. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would increase direct spending by $137 million over the 2004-2008 and by $242 million over the next 10 years.

Family and Medical Leave Act
This act is designed to provide leave to care for a same-sex spouse, or domestic partner without regard for the person’s gender. But beyond this, it provides leave time for caring for almost anyone the applicant chooses to stay home from work to care for. The employee can stay out of work to care for a gay or straight partner. An in- law ( presumably one who is an “in-law” by virtue of a gay partnership, children, siblings or basically anyone. So businesses would be required to give anyone “unpaid” leave to care for someone at the sole discretion of the employee.

These “benefits” and “ civil rights” will be in place before June. Bet on it. Once they are passed they will never be rolled back. Bet on that as well.