I just discovered two other bloggers out there who call themselves Red Stater, more or less, and who were around long before me and this blog:

• theredstater.blogspot.com
• redstaterusa.blogspot.com

Sorry. I feel like I should have known you guys were out there, but I didn’t. Nobody warned me ahead of time. Its too late to change now, gotta stay the course and not just jump ship in midstream, but I wish I had come up with a different name way back a few months ago when first starting out.

So I just wanted to say “hi” to those that were here before me and say “sorry” for taking your names and that kind of thing, and make sure everyone knew that theyre different people then me. I am a completely different person then they are.

A loyal reader sent me the following editorial, which definitely brings up some interesting ideas and which I haven’t seen any discussion of yet:

The Draft

The draft. That’s right America. I, Stephen Colbert, am calling for the reactivation of Selective Service. I say we call up our nation’s able-bodied young adults to serve their country.

Folks, we need the draft. We need the draft to put more soldiers in the field but more importantly to put more protesters in the street. It recently occurred to me that their might be some similarities between Iraq and Vietnam. For one thing, both wars proved that John Kerry is a coward. But their is a difference. See, Vietnam’s anti-war movement was so unbearably strident that many Americans hated the hippies even more than they hated the war. The result? They became Republicans. And just five years after the fall of Saigon, the Reagan revolution swept into power. Any way you look at this, that was a victory for America.

Now the problem with the Iraq war is that public opposition has been unbelievably tame. The liberal nutjobs say the administration lied about WMDs, lied about links between Al Qaeda and Iraq, mismanaged the occupation, all while enriching their corporate masters in the military industrial complex. So how do the enraged throngs fight back? Run for your lives, they’re blogging! During the Vietnam War there were topless protests. There were graduate students shouting “baby killer” at returning troops and Hollywood princesses like Jane Fonda going go-go dancing with the Viet Cong. Now that is stuff you can reject.

Today’s dissident is so tepid that instead of blaming the dissenters, people might actually blame the administration. That’s why reinstating the draft will give us something far more valuable than increased troop levels. It will give us college students who are scared so shitless they will do something in the name of the anti-war movement that’s unforgivable. We need some spoiled rich kid to throw a mochachino at Jessica Lynch. We need some clueless starlet to hug Muqtada al-Sadr. How about Britney Spears, she seems lost. Give her a burka.

Liberal activism will once again be so offensive to average Americans that whether or not we win in Iraq, conservatives will bounce back in 2008 and keep power for years to come.

Its a good idea, and it all makes sense, but I don’t think it will actually work out. I think that the left-wing moonbats are doing these kinds of over the top protests right now, but because we only have the liberal media to report on it, they choose not to.

Why would the liberal media want to show us what kind of disgusting protests are really going on in America’s liberal universities and cities? As Mr. Colbert says, that would only make the public realize what kind of people the liberals actually are, and drive more people to the Republicans. The liberal media hates that idea, and so they just aren’t showing us any of the bad protests.

Reinstating the draft might make the protests even worse, but I don’t see any reason why the liberal media would start reporting on them in that case. They can just keep ignoring them the way they do right now.

Why are people still talking about the Iraq Study Group report? That bloated, irrational liberal piece of junk came out more than a week ago, but people are still paying attention to it and talking about it? Things like that report dont just go away by talking about them, they go away by ignoring them. I think its about time for us all to do that.

The Political Grind has a good comment on why the report isnt realistic:

We cannot begin to turn the tide and win the war on terror until we acknowledge that peace is antithetical to Islamism, and that we cannot haggle with those who live and thrive on the prospect of reaching “heaven” through our demise.

Really, its like the whole report was written by the terrorists themselves. Oh, no, that’s just the liberals. Get them mixed up all the time sorry about that.

Who else would encourage a cut and run strategy in Iraq? The report keeps saying that we need to change what we’re doing and leave Iraq and give up on freedom and democracy there. Thats not what Bush and America is all about so why are they trying to get people to go along with it? Oh yeah because they’re the liberal terrorists that are trying to convert us all to be Muslims and get their war on Christmas going again.

And the liberal media falls for it as usual. Or maybe theyre not falling for anything, they are willingly going along with the liberal talking points about how cutting and running really is a good idea and good for freedom and all that. Of course the media will say that, that’s what the liberals want you to hear. They’re not going to tell you the truth about Muslims being terrorists and wanting to kill us all unless we finish spreading democracy throughout their land.

So just stop talking about the Iraq Study group report and it’ll go away. We can only hope.