Originally a man’s role was to guard, protect, ward off external danger, and so forth his family, tribe, and nation.

The fact that anyone, for any reason, has corrupted the term into something so hideous is greatly disappointing. It’s like Western males have forgotten what it means to be men and just follow what society dictates is right.

Yes, they are only sort of closed, because we do not have, will not have, party registration. There is no such thing as a registered Texas Democrat. We register to vote, and whichever party’s primary and precinct convention we attend, that is our party designation. We like to see a primary fight on the Dem side, not only for the usual reason, divided enemies are easier to defeat, but also because that will draw them to vote in their own primaries, rather than picking our candidate, the one they believe can be more easily defeated. Note how this fits the pattern, not of honest debate on an issue, but squelching opposition. Discussion is bourgeois, power is Guardian Syndrome. Read Systems of Survival, by the late Jane Jacobs.

Texas politics ain’t bean bag.

And from his fellow Republicans? covert support at best. They’re scared to death of the rabid ones.

And according to the Washington Times, the Junkyard Dogs are not only unrepentant, they’re STILL lying, and they plan to go after DeLay AGAIN:

Local news reports said the current Travis County district attorney’s office announced that it would seek a rehearing of the decision.

Texans for Public Justice [sic], which filed the initial complaint that led to the court case, said the acquittal was political.

“We’re disappointed but not surprised that two Republican appellate judges overturned the opinion of 12 jurors who agreed there was sufficient evidence to convict Tom DeLay of money laundering,” the group said in a statement. “When a powerful Republican conspires to steal [sic] an election, powerful Republican judges will bail him out.”

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/19/tom-delays-money-laundering-conviction-overturned/#ixzz2fPMKQOkC

The Junkyard Dogs [my new name for our domestic enemies] also dragged out every single phase of these Star Chamber proceedings, to keep DeLay out of the arena and hogtied.

The judge in the original conviction was a Junkyard Dog appointee; he improperly failed to answer the jury’s question about money laundering — they sent a note asking if the money had to be obtained criminally in the first place in order for it to be money laundering, and instead of saying “Yes, it has to be criminally obtained in order to return a conviction for money laundering,” the judge peremptorily ordered them to “read my instructions.”

The one tool who voted against DeLay’s acquittal on the merits was, of course, a Junkyard Dog.

This is flagrant abuse of process, harassment by Baseless Litigation. Damn these bastards.

I didn’t know anything about the DeLay case: lazily, I didn’t look into it at all, just felt a mild distaste for the man (hey, he ran an exterminator firm! that’s kind of icky) and his alleged tactics. Figured there was something to it, or he wouldn’t have been convicted.

Until today. Today, I heard DeLay on Sean Hannity, and later on Mark Levin (who was even more apoplectic than usual), and realized they just dragged the guy out of the Capitol and tarred and feathered him and rode him out of town on a rail, just to get rid of a too-effective opponent.

They are beneath contempt. And VERY dangerous: they did this to the Majority Whip of the United States Congress. Just like they shredded Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential candidate.

What hope would any of us smaller fry have, if the Machine went after us? There, I think, is your answer to the question of why the Republicans don’t fight harder than they do: they’re scared witless of the Junkyard Dogs.

That has meaning and consequence.

And not only did Stevens win on appeal, some prosecutors were sanctioned.

He won at trial and the appellate court was split 2 – 1.

We need to stop criminalizing politics. Ask Scooter Libby and Ray Donovan.

But can you name any Dems who suffered similar fates?

Right now they are lacking in enforcement branches, given the US military has not been successfully assimilated (yet). They are working on with, with Diversity Casey, but it’s not enough. The thugs and gangs are not enough. Black panthers and Eric Holder’s “people”, are not enough.

They need more power. Or more useless disarmed sheep. One or both is required before the next phase.