Libertarians

“Our virulent enemy right now is radical Islam and those people that support radical Islam to blow up buildings and kill our people”

Via Newsbusters interview with Adam Baldwin who plays John Casey on NBC’s hit series “Chuck”:

But here’s the dirty little secret about Hollywood that I’ve talked about and people don’t talk about enough is that, most people in Hollywood are on the right side of the political spectrum. They just are. Because they live their lives like normal American people do. And the majority of normal Americans are center-right, because they want the government out of their lives, as John Casey does. He wants to protect people’s lives, keep government out of it. But, there’s political correctness that infects Hollywood. Our main enemy, while in the background may be Russia and China, our virulent enemy right now is radical Islam and those people that would support radical Islam to blow up our buildings and kill our people and all that stuff. It’s unfortunate that we aren’t able to address that on a TV show that bows to political correctness. What’s the Jack Bauer show, “24?” I mean, they did it. I wish we’d done more of it.

Hollywood conservatives, libertarians, just want to “work, get their money go home and raise their families”

Later in the interview:

So the conservatives, center-right, libertarians, whatever you want tocall it, they’ve just decided to remain silent and work, get their money go home and raise their families, which I admire and I respect.

The very latest…

Rasmussen 2012 Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

•Barack Obama 44%
•Mitt Romney 44%

•Barack Obama 47%
•Newt Gingrich 40%

H/t Race42012.com

Tall, lean, dark hair, chiseled features

From Eric Dondero:

Libertarian-conservative blogger Stacy McCain TheOtherMcCain.com reporting from a un-expectedly “gi-normous” rally for Romney in downtown Naples the day before the Florida primary:

OK, so what’s Mitt’s secret? Let me put it in the simplest possible terms: Sex appeal. This will elicit a groan from ideologues who have spent the past year proclaiming that Mitt is a gutless flip-flopper, the worst RINO in the history of RINO-dom. Yet if you set aside mere politics long enough to see the two Florida frontrunners as the average Republican voter sees them, it is hard to miss the contrast between Mitt — the tall, lean multimillionaire entrepreneur with dark hair and chiseled features — and Newt, the pudgy intellectual.

Editor’s note – Our friend Stacy knows a bit about sex appeal. He’s fathered 5 children with a gorgeous brunette. Famous insider right blogger story: He won over his bride of 30+ years after appearing poolside one day in a revealing speedo. See photo here. Yes, that really is him.

by Clifford F. Thies

The USS Ponce is described as an “Amphibious Landing Dock.” The description hardly communicates what the ship is to a person not already familiar with this type of vessel. It is a multi-purpose ship, capable of carrying a small number of vertical lift aircraft (usually helicopters), and a small number of assault boats (in its “well deck”), along with a contingent of Marines or other troops. The ship displaces about 9,000 tons. In contrast, an Amphibious Assault Ship displaces about five times that, and a Nimitz-class Aircraft Carrier about ten times that.

The Ponce and her sister ships, all but one of which have been decommissioned, are usually deployed as part of a larger flotilla, and usually given an auxiliary role. For example, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Ponce served to co-ordinate mine-sweeper operations.

The Ponce was itself scheduled for de-comissioning when – on a request from Central Command – it was requisitioned to serve as what the media is describing as the “mother ship” for special operation forces in the Persian Gulf region. The idea is that highly trained special ops teams could be deployed from the Ponce, via helicopter or assault boat, to deal with pirates, hostage rescue, high value targets and possibly also black ops.

As “mother ships” go, the Ponce is pretty small. And, besides, it is not the only ship being deployed to the region. Joining the 5th Fleet is the USS Abraham Lincoln, giving it three of our aircraft carriers (the other two being the Carl Vinson and the John Stennis). The Navy describes the deployment as routine. As for Amphibious Assault Ships in the 5th Fleet, the USS Makin Island recently and replaced the USS Bataan.