A better pledge... one of true hope... and needed change...

I don't know a thing in the world about the group that put this together but I really like their pledge! I'd love to see more of these type videos and pledges, more kids standing up for true values, liberty, our country. I'm always a hopeful person, always believe things'll get better... but this one perked me up a bit more than normal!

Palin, Beck, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Jindal, Hannity & more

All in one place, one weekend: Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Pence, Gary Sinise, Michele Backmann, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill Bennett, John Conyn, Lou Dobbs, Newt Gingrich, Star Parker, Mitt Romney, Lila Rose, Ben Stein, Laura Ingraham, David Horowitz, Mike Huckabee... phew, I know I missed someone, and probably mangled a name or two also!

Check out the Values Voter Summit, September 18 - 20, 2009.

Register before May 15th for only $79!!!
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C.

This is going to be hot! I'm waiting on the press release, soon as I get it I'll pass it along.
www.valuesvotersummit.org or 1-888-372-2284

Introducing our newest members!

First a short "programming note" - In a previous post I shared info on the upcoming Values Voter Summit. I was working from a printed copy of the flyer and missed the comment "invited speakers include" above all the names. Based on those who spoke last year (http://www.frcaction.org/index.cfm?c=VVS ) I'm going to guess that pretty much all of those I mentioned will probably accept. As I noted in my previous post, I'm waiting on the official press release (I called them this morning & asked to be added to the list). I'll keep you updated!

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Some of these are fairly new blogs! Love it when more people choose to start blogging conservative. Given there are six new members I've chosen to include some of their posts rather than try to describe each for you. Please visit. Please let them know you visited. Please follow as many as you possibly can.

* http://chatteringclassmember.blogspot.com- Chattering Class Member

Rahm Emanuel Paid $320K for Helping Freddie Mac?

Told you so
I hate to say it, but "told you so". Who am I chiding? This time it's the mining industry. They believed Obama when he said he was going to take care of them, despite saying he was going to kill the industry (yes, that's a broad paraphrase) to others...

ACORN busing protesters to AIG HOMES!
So, who's behind those buses heading to AIG homes to...

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* http://shelbybarker.blogspot.com - The Right Majority

Rush Limbaugh the Right's Thinker
Today I am writing about a recent article that my Grandfather sent to me. The article was entitled “Rush Limbaugh: Icon of Anti-Morality”

A Call to a Generation
What exactly is a trillion dollars?Let’s take a moment to wrap our minds around this question. If I were to spend 1 million dollars every single day since the day Jesus was born, I still would be short of reaching that one trillion dollar mark...

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* http://crypticcynic.blogspot.com - Cryptic Cynic

What's the difference between a liberal and conservative protester?
The difference between a liberal and a conservative protester is that liberals get paid to protest. Conservatives do it from the heart and mind without pay.

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* http://ladyinliberty.wordpress.com - Don't Tread On Me!

The Fight: Explaining the Federal Reserve to Others
It’s Friday, so it’s time for a fun post (kind of).
Here’s just a little about the Federal Reserve. A fun time!
“The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing...

Angry CNN Moment: A Worried Thought
The internet.
As the media covers more and more on the internet’s involvement with politics, social networking, and its importance in shaping modern society, I begin to worry...

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* http://conservativejohngalt.blogspot.com/ - We Need a Conservative John Galt

Steve Maloney: We need an American version of Daniel Hannan
What if your country held an urgent auction for its massive debt and no one bought it? That happened this week to Great Britain...

Message from Mary Tedisco (re: Jim Tedisco election)
Hey everybody,Thank you all for your support, comments and help over the past eight...

Brit Hume's Remarks in Accepting MRC's 'Award for Media Excellence'
Remarks delivered by Brit Hume, commentator for the Fox News Channel and former anchor of FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume, in accepting the third annual ...

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* http://conservativewomenunited.blogspot.com/ - Conservative Women United

WHO IS THE WIZARD?
There are many jokes on the internet right now that refer to TOTUS, the President’s teleprompter. I hear it even has its own official seal. The references are mostly in regards to O being fed information through his teleprompter and his apparent dependency...

RESOLVE
On December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed and it marked our entry into WWII.After the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan’s Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is attributed to have said, “I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a...

Meanwhile, Back in Tax-A-Lot
Once upon a time in the land of Tax-A-Lot most of the serfs were working very hard to improve their lives by growing small gardens in the back of their huts.

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* And... the Intellectual Redneck is now the Bluegrass Pundit (like it!). http://www.bluegrasspundit.com/ The old blog url is forwarding, but it would be a good idea for everyone to change their links 'cause you never know how long that's going to work.

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Just in case I neglected to introduce you to any of our newest members, here's a list of the last twenty members who've joined the Read My Lipstick Network:

http://conservababeblog.wordpress.com/ - Conservababe
http://raisingeden.blogspot.com/ - Raising Eden
http://feedyouradhd.blogspot.com/ - Feed Your ADHD
http://palinforus.blogspot.com/ - Palin for Us
http://jeannieology.wordpress.com/ - Jeannieology
http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/ - Notoriously Conservative
http://www.comebackconservatives.blogspot.com/ - Common Sense Conservatism
http://thenewsfactor.com/ - The News Factor
http://the-spyglass.blogspot.com/ - The Spyglass
http://www.truthfullyright.blogspot.com/ - Conservatism for a Millennial
http://rosieshades.blogspot.com/ - Rosie Shades
http://conservativewomenunited.blogspot.com/ - Conservative Women United
http://ladyinliberty.wordpress.com/ - Don't Tread On Me!
http://www.recoverycountdown.com/ - Recovery Countdown
http://stixblog.com/ - Stix Blog
http://www.pal2pal.com/ - Pal 2 Pal
http://www.runsarah2012.blogspot.com/ - Sarah Palin for President 2012
http://shelbybarker.blogspot.com/ - The Right Majority
http://crypticcynic.blogspot.com/ - Cryptic Cynic
http://chatteringclassmember.blogspot.com/ - Chattering Class Member
http://conservativejohngalt.blogspot.com/ - We Need a Conservative John Galt

Five New Blogs Join the Read My Lipstick Network

Don't ever let anyone tell you that patriotism, love of country, conservative values and a willingness to fight for our country no longer exist! All you have to do is scan through our member blogs and you can see the spirit and spunk that helps us to rise above adversity time after time.

I know things may look bleak right now, but if we keep on fighting, keep on plugging away, we can still turn things around.

I was happy to discover that some of the following are brand new bloggers! I know you'll want to support them. Be sure to add them to your list of favorites, you're blogrolls and when you can, leave a comment so they know you're reading their words. We need an army of bloggers, keep encouraging your friends on the right to blog, tweet, post videos and keep the pressure on our elected officials.

1. http://genuinegopmom.blogspot.com/ - Why Mommy is a Republican
If you're curious about the Tech Summit our new RNC Chair, Michael Steele put together, be sure to check out Why Mommy is a Republican:

GOP Tech Summit
On February 13, the GOP, under the leadership of our new chairman Michael Steele, held a Tech Summit to discuss the technological innovations that the party can implement to more readily engage voters. All were invited to the table to present their ideas.

2. http://realtrueamerican.blogspot.com - Real True American

American's Right to Defend One's Property in Jeopardy
Imagine that you are home minding your own business. You are a simple cattle rancher who wants to spend his days in peace in the Arizona countryside next to the border with Mexico. You are not near any major cities where crime runs rampant.

3. http://weeklypoliticalreview.blogspot.com - Weekly Political Review

Update on Democrats' Needed Vocabulary Lesson
I feel like banging my head against the wall. Democrats must have missed the day in school where they learned the meaning of the words "vetting" and "transparent".

4. http://www.oneangryamericanwoman.blogspot.com - One Angry American Woman

I love my God, my Country and my Family. I am frustrated and angry at what I see going on in America and in our government. I am venting my frustrations here, but I am also hoping we can put our collective heads together and come up with a plan to do something about it. I'm afraid if we dumped a bunch of tea in the bay we would be cited for an environmental spill and be heavily fined or put in jail, so it needs to be something legal, clean, respectful, original and terribly clever.

5. http://1ldsmom.blogspot.com/ - One LDS Mom

Be sure to scroll down the sidebar, she has some great quotes.

"Each of us has a natural right—from God—to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two."-Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) A French economist, statesman, and author.

Conservatism is...

I've created a new blog titled "Conservatism is..."

I'd like to ask you, and your friends if you'd like to share this, to share your thoughts on conservative values, the reason you're a self-titled conservative, what you think it means to be conservative, and whatever else you'd like to share keeping in mind the title of the blog "Conservatism is...".

I will post your thoughts and essays with a link back to your blog and / or website (s), your name if you'd like it included and a brief bio if you send it. Be as long-winded or brief as you'd like keeping in mind one sentence doesn't constitute an "essay" .

My idea is to 1) share the true meaning of the label conservative, 2) promote you and your writings, 3) sell conservatism to all those who have erroneous views on the label.

I'll be linking the blog on about 200 or so websites and blogs, plus once I have a logo it'll have it's own ads on untold blogs. We've just posted our first "essay" (from Vets on the Watch) and we'll be posting more later today (already have five from some of our great bloggers!).

Hope you have time to help! Send the essays to this email address: readmylipstick at live.com.

The address is http://conservatismis.blogspot.com and www.conservatismis2.wordpress.com (haven't posted anything on the wordpress version yet...)

Working together to build a better Internet force

In the past few weeks I've seen a proliferation of networks, movement and groups forming on the Internet. Grassfire, WAM08, Modern Conservatives, Liberty Coalition of America, my very own Read My Lipstick Network and our new United Conservatives of America just to name a very few of the ones I've heard about. Team Sarah has also been a huge force in this election giving us all a place to gather and talk, encourage and get our marching orders!

Somehow we have to find a way to work as a cohesive force rather than a thousand splintered groups. We need an umbrella organization that joins all the groups together so we CAN have an impact. Divided we fall, united we WIN.

I've been emailing back and forth with a number of groups because I came up with the idea of United Conservatives of America (UCOA) to act as the umbrella organization to list all the networks, movements and resistance. However, it turns out everyone wants their group to be top of the so-called heap, so UCOA would just be another splinter. [Note: the networks I mentioned in the first paragraph are not in that category, we're all working together nicely and they're great folks! I encourage you to get involved / join all of them.]

The groups / sites / movements are willing to list mine if I'll list theirs (which of course I will). I've replied that I'll be happy to do so and that I don't really care who's "in charge" of the main site, it can be their site, but we need to have some central way of communicating and walking together albeit in loose lock-step. Problem is, there are so many that want to be the main site that no one is going to end up being a main clearing station for groups. Everyone is building their own little kingdom. Can't say I blame them, we're all fired up and want to DO something right now!

We're independent. That's one of the things that makes conservatives so special. We aren't drones and we're willing to roll up our sleeves and work... independently .

I believe our independence works against us to some degree. We get bogged down with an issue that in the scheme of things doesn't mean much. We lose the big picture while fighting over the little things. Most of us are intelligent, strong, individuals which makes it even harder to play together for any length of time.

We have to find a way to check our egos and learn to work together without giving up our own values.

The election was a prime example of how our egos and independence hurt our common cause. Remember when some of "OUR" guys started attacking Sarah Palin? Questioning McCain's choice? Did they really think that was going to get John McCain elected? Ego. They wanted to be right, to sell a column, or get on a talk show (or be able to claim they were the 'first' to discover the problem). They weren't looking at the big picture. Much as I decry the mainstream media and the libs, they put their little differences aside for the most part and painted a unified picture. We were divided and we lost. (Yes, I know that's not the only reason ;-)

Somehow if we are going to survive as conservatives, if we are going to reverse this trend, we have to find a common goal that unites us. We have to be willing to work toward a larger goal together. We need what the libs say they have (and don't), a 'big tent" approach.

Some of you are working on manifestos, common causes, banding together and getting others to join your groups. Some have started networks, petitions, plans of action, movements, etc.

Let's figure out a way to pull all of everyone's efforts together. I don't care who gets the credit and whose organization is the biggest, I want to take back our country and make it the strong, principled, free country it should be and has been. Our values and principles are being eroded as I type. Our inability to play together is going to be our downfall.

Janet
www.readmylipsticknetwork.com
readmylipstick [at] live [dot] com

Read My Lipstick Network Continues to Expand!

"Let's Get It Right" has joined our growing group of bloggers! I am always uplifted when I read our member blogs and see the number of quality individuals out there working hard to preserve our values and freedoms. You all give me great hope for the future of our country, and our world.

Here's the link to Carlos Echevarria's blog: http://carlosechevarria.blogspot.com/

Please add it to your blog lists, your favorite lists and be sure to read his blog.

We're getting down to the wire! I'd like to encourage everyone to visit www.wam08.org and sign up to listen to their conference call tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Great words, great marching orders!

If you're Catholic, go check out www.catholicvote.com and sign up. You'll get an invitation to listen to a webcast or phone call tomorrow night at 9 p.m. from www.priestsforlife.org. The focus of these groups is to elect a pro-life President. If that is an issue of importance to you, please sign up and see what you can do to help their efforts in these last few days.

I've been visiting the McCain website and making phone calls when I have a few minutes. I have had some great conversations with people in Wisconsin and Florida thus far. It's encouraging to DO something positive to reach voters. We're not alone, we are the majority, we need to raise our voices and put every effort towards getting John McCain and Sarah Palin into the White House!!!

ANOTHER Fantastic New Member

So many, many are coming out to support the wonderful Sarah Palin and the next great President of the United States, John McCain! If you've been on Team Sarah lately it is growing so fast it crashed the system for a short period of time! I just heard a bit more about the polls on this morning's talk shows and, although I discounted them before, I really discount them now!

One thing I found interesting was a short piece on the actual coverage from the media on the campaign. It showed what we have all known, Barack Obama gets a pass and John McCain has been dumped on to the tune of almost triple the percentages. Duh. We don't need an independent group telling us that, we've all turned off mainstream media because of their open bias.

Anyway, we have a new member! Please add Meet the Real Sarah Palin (http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/) to your sidebars, blog rolls, blog lists, the blogs you're following, etc.

Our blogroll is working but we're still unable to add blogs to it or make any changes. Some nasty stupid hacker took it down, they got it back but they're unable to let us make changes right now. They're re-working the system to try and fix the areas hackers can hit.

As soon as it's back up we'll get the last four or five new members added.

Call your friends, call your enemies! Get the vote out for John McCain. Let the silent majority speak and let's not lose our country to someone who's going to take from those who've worked their tails off to make the American dream a reality so they can give it to those who live with their hands out.

I'm not talking about those who work and try, I'm talking about those who expect hand-outs and live on them. All statistics show that Republicans GIVE more than Democrats. We are a caring group of folks who live what the other side talks. There's a false picture that has been painted about us that has nothing to do with reality.

Time is short and John McCain needs your enthusiasm! The country and those American values that built this country need your enthusiasm!

Expanding just a bit... a tiny bit... need your thoughts

Our focus is and has been getting Sarah Palin and John McCain elected. We also support conservative views and family values.

That said, some of the founders of RMLN have been talking about what we'll do AFTER the election.

John McCain and Sarah Palin are going to need our support more than ever after the election if we're successful in our efforts to put them in the White House. The media, Democrats and liberals will do the same thing to them that they've done to President Bush and to conservatives across the country.

We are going to start expanding our membership rolls just a bit to include blogs that share our values and are willing to do what they can to counter attacks against family values and a broad range of conservative values. We're looking for those who are openly in support of John McCain and Sarah Palin. We're looking for blogs and sites that are willing to focus for the most part on Sarah Palin of course! Getting Sarah into the White House is the reason the Network came into being.

Even if we are unsuccessful in getting McCain-Palin elected we'll continue to support Sarah as we know she's going to make waves in the future! She has arrived on the scene and boy is she a powerhouse!!!

We'll need to be stronger than ever if the Democrats steal the election (put in "voter fraud Obama" or "voter fraud Democat" in your search engine and see what's going on out there!). We have to support the values of the Republican Party --- and I'll clarify that a bit, we're talking about the core principles and values, not a blanket support of the "organization"!

If you have any comments or concerns or thoughts, please let us know. We want to hear from all members of the RMLN so we make sure we're all together on the direction we take.

Let's get John McCain and Sarah Palin elected!!! Let's get our country back on track!!!

Suggested reading: The Obama Nation, by Jerom R. Corsi, Ph.D., published by Threshhold Editions (A Division of Simon & Schuster)