Jim Deakin: A Freakin Idiot

I'm all for ousting McCain in 2010.  RINOs suck.  McCain, despite his service in Vietnam, doesn't have any fight in him.  And he's an illegal alien sympathizer.  He's also interested in working with "my friends" across this aisle to pass a Health Care bill.  Since I believe in deregulation of (just about) everything, I don't trust McCain and his "friends" to increase the amount they leave me the heck alone.

I've been very interested in learning more about McCain's primary challengers as a result of this.

First up:  Chris Simcox.  Founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, he's been embroiled in more scandal than you can shake a stick at.  Huge dust-up with Jim Gilchrist over Minuteman tactics and future of the organization resulting in a split in memberships and organizations.  Restraining order against him by his ex-wife and son.  Embezzlement of MCDC fence funds (allegedly).  Getting in bed with Deiner Consulting and other DC Beltway insiders, allowing them to tap into the finances of the volunteer driven MCDC.  A financial efficiency rating of about 8%, last I heard, after all of that.  Just abysmal financial management.  Another dust-up with the Arizona MCDC core group resulting in another fracture of the Minuteman coalition and the creation of Patriot's Border Alliance by the dissenters.  Simcox is a schmuck.

Next up, and the topic of this blog post for today:  Jim Deakin.

I was initially excited over this guy... his page sounded good.

Then one day, Stacey O'Connell (formerly of the MCDC, PBA, and Phoenix City Council) sent me this email, part of Deakin's mass mailing strategy to get his name out to more folks:

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., is teaming with Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to back the Fighting Real Estate Fraud Act of 2009.
 

Apparently Jon Kyl has not learned that reaching across the aisle to Democrats is what will cost John McCain the election to Jim Deakin.  Jon is giving $200 Million in borrowed tax dollars to prosecutors to investigate and target everyday Americans who are down on their luck and who resort to stripping their homes prior to foreclosure. 

HEY JON, BANKS ALREADY RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS. IF THEY CAN NOT REPLACE A FEW TOILETS AND LIGHT FIXTURES THEN THEY SHOULD GO OUT OF BUSINESS.  FAILED BANK MANAGERS SHOULD NOT GET ANOTHER BAIL OUT FROM THE TAX PAYERS.

HEY JON, IT IS NOT IN YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO GIVE MY TAX DOLLARS TO STATE PROSECUTORS.

Maybe John will challenge Jon in the 2012 Senatorial race? 

Whoever reads the US Constitution first should win.

 While I do give Deakin minor approval for discerning between federal and state law enforcement and revenue streams...

I have a HUGE issue with this statement:  Jon is giving $200 Million in borrowed tax dollars to prosecutors to investigate and target everyday Americans who are down on their luck and who resort to stripping their homes prior to foreclosure.  


 Jim, you just lost my vote.  You've revealed your lack of moral core, populist sympathies and unsuitability for the office of Senator.

A Senator must be a man above the fray who is armed with reason rather than bribes to hand out in his pocket, and a proponent of the Law before mob rule.  A Defender of the Republic rather than a promulgator of Democracy.  We've all heard Ben Franklin's famous saying, right?  Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for dinner.  A Republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.

Deakin revealed himself here, hoping to garner the votes of the types of low-lifes that once it becomes apparent they cannot make their mortgage payments, lower their behavior to the point of petty vandalism.

Ask yourself:  If you are about to lose your home, is it your right to vandalize the property by stripping copper wiring and piping from it for salvage?  How about rolling up the sod from the backyard and selling it?  Perhaps you could disassemble the drywall, shingles and lumber to sell to another home builder?  Or, maybe, you can just have a house moving company pick up the house and move it elsewhere in one big chunk?

What sympathy could anyone possibly have for thieves?  Mortgages exist as they do under the assumption that both sides act with honor.  When the borrower attempts to steal valuable infrastructure from the house upon default, the value of the house drops so that the lender cannot recoup their losses.  The result is an increase in mortgage costs for everyone.  What other industries do we see behaving like this?

Health Care.  Auto Insurance.  Retail, as a result of shoplifting.

Get the idea?  It's another case of self-sufficient people (healthy people in the case of health care, safe drivers in the case of auto insurance, honest purchasers in the case of retail, and responsible borrowers in the case of home loans) being forced to bail out the dregs of society who refuse to accept responsibility for themselves.  The twinky-munching fatsos in the electric scooter at WalMart that buys nothing but junk food with his food stamps and complains of being "big boned" rather than fat-headed when he goes in for a heart attack on my dime.  The texting idiot driving in one of the lanes beside you, on his third car this year.  The shoplifter.  And now the mortgage defaulting vandal.

So, I say again:  While I give brief acknowledgment to Deakin for at least discerning the difference between state and federal law enforcment budgets and priorities... Deakin did more than that.  He revealed deliberate sympathy for petty vandals.

I hope Terry Goddard puts every one of Deakin's apparent voter base behind bars.