New Media Alliance - Red Phillips

This will be of particular interest to my readers who live in Georgia. Ray McBerry is considering another run for Georgia Governor, but he wants to hear from you. You may remember that he ran as a conservative challenger to Gov. Sonny Purdue in the GOP primary in 2006.

Ray McBerry is a friend of mine. He is a good guy and a very solid conservative. He is the kind of authentic conservative you just don’t find running in the Republican Party anymore.

The “big names” who are also likely running, John Oxendine and Casey Cagle, are both mainstream establishment types. So a McBerry candidacy would give Georgians a real choice. (To be fair, Oxendine and Cagle are probaly a little better than your average mainstream GOP types, but they are not Ray McBerry.)

If you want Ray to run, he is asking for us to let him know. Go here for details.

I say, “Run Ray Run!”

- Red Phillips

There is a lot of chatter these days making that argument. And the same arguments apply for the Constitution Party as well. My thoughts are in the replies.

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/11/mataconis-somin-call-for-end-of-libertarian-party/#comment-26190

The system needs third parties. If nothing else they serve as a safety valve. Libertarians are by definition ideological and eschew pure political pragmatism. (Even the pragmatists within the LP aren’t pragmatic by GOP or Dem standards. If they were they wouldn’t be in a third party.)

All the complaining that Barr wasn’t Libertarian enough. How are those people going to work within one of the two parties? Even if you work within the major parties in the primary, you have to have a third party in the general as an outlet.

The same thing is true for the Constitution Party.

I will elaborate more on this later. I’m working on an article.

- Red Phillips

I guess National Review is getting too “conservative” and hoi polloi for Frum’s growing elitist centrism. He must no longer be comfortable with those grubby Palin supporting “conservatives” at NR.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/media/17review.html?ref=business

I say good riddance. Hopefully National Review will bring in someone to replace him who is … oh I don’t know … perhaps … maybe … actually conservative. A man can dream can’t he?

Via Daniel McCarthy at the AmConMag blog.

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/11/17/frumpurged/

- Red Phillips

Good for Fort Worth. The Episcopal Church, which is the Anglican fellowship in America, is basically Christian in name only.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=321718

The theologically conservative Diocese of Fort Worth voted Saturday to split from the liberal-leaning Episcopal Church, the fourth traditional diocese to do so in a long-running debate over the Bible, homosexual relationships and other issues.

About 80 percent of clergy and parishioners in the Texas diocese supported the break in a series of votes at a diocesan convention.

- Red Phillips

Oh really?

http://www.onenewsnow.com/vidPlayer.aspx?videoId=8950

This kind of nonsense disgusts me. People like Mayor Villaraigosa couldn’t care less what Jesus thinks so they shouldn’t dare invoke His name. The Bible is unambiguously clear in its denunciation of homosexual conduct. Those who pretend it isn’t are either ignorant or intentionally disingenuous. Mayor V. is the latter.

- Red Phillips