Can Lew Waters Define What "Fringe" Means?

Lew drops another turd of wisdom:


But what, we ask, does Lew mean by "fringe far right?"

Well, apparently anyone who disagrees with Lew.  This is why Lew NEVER engages in a forum where he doesn't control the microphone. Because then he's never trapped in uncomfortable situations like having to define his terms when he obviously has no coherent definition.  By remaining nebulous, he can sound authoritative, when he's actually on the verge of being incoherent.

So what does Lew consider fringe?

► Is it fringe to rewrite the county party bylaws to give more decision making power to the central committee and remove it from the executive committee?

► Is it fringe to challenge our elected officials to uphold the party's core principles* in their legislation?

► Is it fringe to challenge those officials who seem to caucus with the democrats in their votes to explain themselves?

► Is it fringe to be fiscally responsible with the party's treasury?

► Is it fringe to challenge the state party to not support or endorse one Republican candidate over another before the primaries, like what happened in 2012?

► Is it fringe to ask questions of candidates to establish their commitment to the party platform and core principles before endorsing them?

► Is it fringe to withhold campaign financing from faux republicans who do not espouse the party platform or uphold the party core principles?

► Is it fringe to hold our elected officials accountable when they vote or legislate in a manner contrary to the core principles and platform of the Republican party?

► Is it fringe to establish committees to vet potential candidates for suitability?  What kind of a moron endorses any candidate who chooses to hang an (R) after their name without getting to know them?  This is how you get leftists like John Blom calling themselves Republicans.

► Is it fringe to establish committees to objectively review and report on the legislative activities of our elected officials, so the central committee can make educated decisions?

These are the things that Lew considers fringe.  These are what the Liberty Alliance initiated in 2012 in Clark County, and what has been promoted since then, with one 2 year hiatus when we inadvertently placed the party in the hands of an irresponsible frat boy. It's unbelievable that Lew considers any of this "extremist" or "fringe".  The only excuse that he has for this silliness is that *gasp* some of the people who drove this change actually support Ron Paul!  Most didn't, but hey, facts never meant much to Lew.

So what kind of Republicans does Lew endorse?

► How about a Party Chairman who took the gavel of a vibrant, active party with overwhelming good will, and then proceeded to squander every shred of that good will by alienating the people who made the party what it is for the purpose of inviting a wider demographic who don't share the core principles or party platform?  Lew endorses this kind of behavior, because some of the people who were alienated once supported Ron Paul, for which Lew would happily put them against the wall and have them shot.

► How about a party chairman who unilaterally and against the bylaws made large expenditures from the party treasury without the approval of the central committee or executive committee? Fine with Lew, because he's the right kind of Republican.

►How about a party chairman who has admitted in open court documents to using illegal narcotics including cocaine while acting as party chairman?  Lew has no problem with this, because he the right kind of Republican.

► How about a party chairman who neglected to address legal issues accidentally incurred by the party, didn't lift a finger or even show up at the hearing where fines were levied against the party he was chair of, and then didn't do a thing to pay off even a dime of those fines, or negotiate a smaller settlement?  Fine by Lew, because he's the right kind of Republican.

► How about a party member who refuses entry to party members at a public event for which they have tickets because she doesn't like them?  Fine by Lew, because she's the right kind of Republican.

► How about a party member who creates a faux shadow party which cleverly rearranges the name to make it look to the public like the properly elected Republican party, and then proceeds to spend money to campaign for candidates that have note been endorsed by the Central Committee, and in fact some of whom were not even running as Republicans?  Fine by Lew, because she's the right kind of Republican.

► How about a divisive Party member who spends hours poring through the party's PDC filings to find the slightest irregularity, and then instead of bringing the matter to the treasurer to be resolved in-house, files PDC complaints which could end up costing the local party thousands of dollars in fines, all for the express purpose of embarrassing the Chairman who beat her for the post? Fine by Lew, because she's the right kind of Republican.

► How about a divisive Party member who finds unfortunate legal problems in the past of a fellow committee member which could be embarrassing to the party if publicized, but doesn't bring it to the attention of the chairman or the executive committee, but instead sits on this information until the time when it can do the most possible harm and cause the greatest amount of embarrassment for the individual and the party, and then deliberately leaks it to the local paper to ensure maximum distribution?   Fine by Lew, because she's the right kind of Republican.

Lew clearly doesn't know what "far right" or "fringe" even means.  He's driven by hate and prejudice, and has no grasp of the facts.  His worldview is shaped by the prejudices of those who whisper into his ear.  He's attended none of the many meetings he condemns, he doesn't personally know any of the people he hates so vehemently.  His ignorance is only overshadowed by his libelous vitriol.  The sorts of Republicans and self-proclaimed conservatives with whom he surrounds himself are self-indulgent narcissists who do not serve for the good of the community or the conservative movement, but only for their personal aggrandizement, at the cost of all else.  They would happily burn the party to the ground if they're not allowed to be in control.  This is the party Lew espouses, and thankfully, those voters in Clark County who pay attention don't agree with him.

If the party doesn't get rid of the sorts of Republicans Lew supports, it's doomed, because it becomes nothing but the right wing of the Democrat party.  When the voter is faced with a choice between liberal and liberal-lite, the liberal will always win.

If Lew can point to any action on the part of the local party since 2012 that he considers fringe or unacceptable, then I invite him to do so, and explain why he considers it so. This is a challenge for you to make sense for once old man.  Can you do it?

Let me hazard a guess that Lew will start off by decrying the abhorrent tactic of going out into the precincts and recruiting like-minded "fringe, extremist"people to fill vacant Precinct committee officer slots. Never mind that he can't point to a single action done in committee by any of the "fringe extremists" that's actually fringe or extreme.  Never mind that his own girlfriend Carolyn Crain did the exact same thing nearly two years ago with his full approval. Because she's the right kind of Republican.

Then Lew will go off on a ticker about how the fringe extremists set out to malign him, and point at this blog as proof positive.  Sorry, telling the truth and setting the record straight against a prejudiced, misinformed pundit with an axe to grind is neither fringe nor extreme. Most of the damage he's suffered because of this blog was self-inflicted, so that dog won't hunt.  Find something that the "fringe extremists" did in committee that materially harms the Republican brand.
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*The Clark County Republican Party has a set of core principles which are adopted by the Central Committee- that is, the elected precinct committee officers from throughout the county.  Adoption of a core principle requires a 3/4 majority vote, per the party bylaws.

Get a Clue, Lew

We're beside ourselves with joy that we're on Lew's mind.  Not really sure what he's trying to do, or start, or whatever, but he really seems to have gone around the bend. Now.  Outraged that we didn't say anything he could point at and lie about from yesterday's chiding, true to form, Lew insists on doubling down on stupid.

Why so sad, bro?  Surely you didn't expect us to turn this little truth site into a rant about the CRC, did you?  No one comes here for that.

Look at the title of this blog, old man.  It's not Jay Inslee Watch.  It's not CRC watch.  It's not the Clark County Conservative Establishment.  It's Lew Waters Watch.  It never pretended to be anything else, not a citizen's advocacy group.  Not a call to arms for conservatives to rally around.  Not a dump tank for whatever bug bear has our attention at the moment. 

The sole purpose of this blog is and has always been -- and we've said this many times -- to call bullshit on you when you go off the rails.  Why do we do it here?  Because you have always blocked, censored, silenced and defamed anyone who disagrees with you on any subject on any of the media outlets you control.  And you're conspicuously absent or silent on any media outlet where you don't control the mike.  You can't stand it when you don't control the narrative, or when your readers aren't fawning over you and telling you how wise and brave you are.

You want a discussion on the CRC outside of your pathetic shell of what used to be a pretty good blog, or your totalitarian controlled little echo chamber facebook group?  Then come on over to some other groups and join in where you're not an admin.  Unblock many of the dozens of people you've blocked, and if you apologize, maybe the dozens more who have blocked you might give you a second chance. 

Not gonna hold our breath.  Because Lew Waters NEVER engages when he can't control the microphone and silence dissent.  Historical fact.

Sagacious allegations?  No one made any sagacious allegations, you old fool.  Everything that this blog has ever published is right here for the cat to sniff at.  Every lie you told, we pulled back the curtain and revealed the truth.  Every voice you silenced on your web site, we gave voice to.  Every defamatory thing you tried to pin on the legions who have offended you, we have shown the truth.  No one ever accused you of any wrongdoing. We just repeated your own words back, verbatim, and showed them for the steaming pile of shit they were.

No one ever tried to make you say or think a certain way.  No one tried to silence you.  That's your thing, not ours.  Voicing disagreement, and showing why you're wrong, and embarrassing you for some of the stupid shit for which you should be embarrassed is not censorship, Lew.  It's free speech.  If you practiced it, this blog never would have been necessary.  If your opinion can't win the day in the marketplace of  ideas, there's no virtue in silencing those who show the true worth of your opinion. 

And no one has hitched their mule to anything on Lew Waters Watch, Lew, because you're just not that relevant. The conservative movement marches on, making sure that the power is retained by the grass roots, ensuring that even morons like Carolyn Crain get to have a voice in the local party.  Nobody has tried to exclude people from any meetings since your drugged up little butt-buddy Gellatly tried to make a closed meeting when he retaliated against board members who objected to his financial irregularities when he was chairman. When your girlfriend Carolyn walked precincts looking for people to run against conservatives, and then spent a considerable amount of money on campaign flyers to defeat those conservatives, we didn't hear a peep out of you about how unethical it was, which is the height of hypocrisy, considering that's exactly what you were screaming about when the liberty alliance was doing the exact same thing.

You giggled with glee when the local party incurred a PDC fine by following the advice they sought from the PDC office.  The then-chairman called the PDC and told them the numbers weren't all in, and asked if it was  better to file late with the correct numbers, or file on time and amend it. The PDC said better to file late with the correct numbers, and then fined the party for doing exactly that.  Did you get outraged at the PDC?  No!  You felt it was right and just because the chairman *gasp* supported Ron Paul once upon a time.  Your situational ethics are pathetic.

When your pretty boy Gellatly didn't lift a finger to try to reduce or negotiate the PDC fine, and didn't raise a dime to pay it down, you were silent.  But when the current chairman negotiates a probationary reduction in the fine and raises record funds to pay it off before donations are needed for next year's campaign season, you call him corrupt, and your girlfriend Carolyn Crain goes out of her way with a gotcha game to try to deliberately violate the PDC probation, just to make the current chairman look bad. God, you people make a person ill.

When Julie Olson and John Blom act and vote like the liberal Democrats they are, when they don't even pay lip service to the party core principles (principles - there's something you need to research.  Apparently it's an unfamiliar concept to you), you remain strangely silent.  And then you have the balls to call yourself some kind of conservative. 

Hell, Lew, if you spent half the effort actually attacking the liberals and Democrats as you do attacking people who actually share your political leanings, we might be able to take back the 49th!

So get over yourself.  If you want to review your record of nonsense, censorship, bullying, name calling, and outright lies, you've come to the right place.  If you want to actually have a discussion about the CRC, there's plenty of other places and venues where it's being discussed.  Go check a few out.  Hell, might even see you there.

Keep saying stupid stuff, and we'll keep pointing it out.  Because that's pretty much what we're here for, since you block, remove and censor anyone who does it anywhere else. We take no joy in it. Better for all, really, if it wasn't necessary.  We make no bones about it.  We're trolls.  Feed us and we get fat.  It's a little bit amusing, and a little bit sad that you can't see that, and you just can't help yourself, even when we tell you.  Stop hitting yourself in the head, Lew.  It's all right.  You can do it, even if it's us that ask you to.

Kickin' it Rent-Free!

Honestly, in between political campaign seasons, we here at LWW don't even think about old Lew very much.  He's got his meager little echo chamber soap-box over on Facistbook, now that he's removed everyone that disagrees with him and could embarrass him by pulling the curtain back on his hypocrisy and his tenuous grip on reality. He's really not in much of a position to actually do any damage to conservatism in SW Washington with his ignorant name calling and lies at this point int he campaign cycle.  It's not like the Columbian is picking up his lies and running them as a byline when they have Carolyn Crain feeding them whatever dirt she can invent about the Chairman who beat her for control of the party.  Honestly, we go months without even thinking about him, because we prefer to live in a nice world, where people can get along and exchange ideas freely.

But it was brought to our attention that we're apparently living rent-free in old Lew's head.  This just tickles us to no end, since we can get under the old fraud's skin without even doing anything!  So apparently Lew is concerned that we might have an opinion about the newly resurrected CRC.  We've been hearing a lot about this lately, but the strange thing is that never once did we think to ourselves, "I hope old Lew weighs in on this!"



Nope, Lew.  Not our circus, not our monkeys.  We have excellent people like John Ley who add a dash of reason to the insanity that is the CRC, so no effort is necessary on our part.  This is, in fact, a problem without a solution.  Adding new bridge capacity will do exactly zero towards relieving the congestion on the existing bridges, it will only increase traffic to newly opened commercial corridors wherever the new bridges land.  There's no acceptable design to replace the existing I-5 bridge, because the design requirements are mutually exclusive.  There are things that can be done to mitigate the existing traffic problem, but no one is interested in hearing those because they're not sexy enough.  There are some very good solutions, but they require thinking way outside the box, and have far too many unknowns associated with them to be acceptable to politicians.

There's the usual lies about the bridge being inadequate for a Cascadia earthquake.  Trust me, the I-5 bridge is one of the most solidly built structures in the area.  It's be the last thing standing when the big one hits.

Replacing the or correcting the design flaws of the bridge doesn't address the problem of inadequate highway infrastructure through downtown Portland.

But on the whole, they're gonna do what they're gonna do. They try to dress it up like a bridge, but in reality it's just a fleecing of the taxpayers. Lew Waters Watch isn't a community advocacy outlet.  Our sole raison d'etre is to heap scorn and ridicule on an old buffoon when he starts trying to do material damage to the conservative movement in Southwest Washington with his lies, ignorant prejudices and hate-filled propaganda.  On the whole, Lew does a pretty good job of highlighting things that citizens need to be concerned about; he's not all bad. On issues that don't involve local personalities who have at some time or another offended the old goat, he's usually spot-on.  If he could learn to distinguish friend from foe and get over the fact that just because people sometimes disagree with him doesn't mean that they're the anti-Christ, he'd be a positive voice for SW Washington.

But we're mighty glad to know the old fraud is thinking about us.  We've accomplished our purpose.

Lew's Meltdown Continues

A couple of weeks ago Looney Lew chose to pontificate on his barely read little page of hate again regarding the recent recall attempt of Clark County GOP Chairman Earl Bowerman.

First, he brands the party chair as part of the Alt-right, whatever that means.  

So what is the Alt-right group, Lew?  Would that be the group that demands ethical behavior of our elected officials and calls them to conform to the party's stated core values and party platform?  You know, the ones who actually walk the walk on conservative values, instead of giving belly rubs to the Democrats in return for meaningless legislative scraps? Or is it pretty much anyone who doesn't agree with your girlfriend Carolyn Crain?I actually can't find a fault with this statement.  It pretty much sums up Carolyn Crain in a nutshell.  She's repeatedly demonstrated that she's quite willing to burn the county party to the ground if she can't be in charge. She's subsequently admitted that she drafted the complaint on the part of Park Llafet.

Oh, Lew just can't resist using pejoratives to describe anyone who actually exercises critical thinking skills.  But come on, old man, calling people bots because they don't fall in lock step with your thinking -- in other words, be your bots?  Nothing like projecting your own shortcomings onto others.
Yes, imagine the chairman actually following the rules and bylaws!  Oh, the horror! The chairman was following the bylaws that stated that he presides over all central committee meetings. If you had an ounce of integrity, you would understand this, and recognize that the proper procedure would have been to allow him to open the meeting and conduct the role call, then entertain a motion to replace him as chair. As I recall, such a motion was made, and seconded, and was defeated by a counted vote. The votes of the PCOs were never overruled. He had two parliamentarians advising him, one of which was hired by the plaintiff in the proceedings, and nothing was done that was out of order without them bringing it to his attention.

The bylaws unequivocally state that the Legislative District chairs can recommend appointments of PCOs to vacant precincts, and the Chairman has the power to appoint those PCOs. There is nothing in the bylaws that specify any limits to when he can do this. There were recommendations to appoint PCO's to vacated precincts and the previous chair, David Gellatly, sat on them and refused to appoint them because they were his political antagonists. It cuts both ways, you uneducated old windbag.

It's amazing that you're still wedded to the idea that it was unconscionable that PCO's were recruited by the conservative, liberty-minded, responsible part of the party in 2014.  I mean, my god, what are we thinking, recruiting people who share our values? That's actually when we started this blog to counter your irresponsible bullshit. But then your girlfriend Carolyn Crain does the exact same thing in 2018, and that's okay, because you guys like stroking each other so much. Damn, son, is there a picture of you in the dictionary under hypocrite?

There was no one in that room who was unfamiliar with the subject matter.  Everyone had gotten a copy of Park Llafet's Carolyn Crain's complaints. Some folks decided it was all a waste of time, and made a motion to adjourn, and the majority agreed and ended the meeting.  Do you think if the subject matter had been presented and a vote taken the result would be any different?

What is it that Republicans stand for, Lew?  It's apparent that you endorse the Swell Old Boy Republican Establishment, which stands for crony capitalism, back-scratching and behind closed doors deals to pass legislation to further enrich the moneyed interests who buy and pay for these candidates, and to hell with the grass roots.  We know the Republican party you stand for, Lew, and we repudiate it.  The Clark County Republican party stands for the individual's rights, smaller, less intrusive government and fiscal responsibility. We know from your incessant vitriol that you cannot tolerate these concepts, so why do you keep calling yourself a conservative?

Yep, in record amounts, because donors have actual values, unlike your cadre which exists for the mindless pursuit of power and popularity to get their hands in the public trough for their own personal enrichment.  And the money they donate is going to pay down the fine that the previous chairman did nothing to pay off or mitigate, and will be going to staunchly conservative candidates who vow to actually act like conservative Republicans when they get in office, instead of Democrats masquerading as conservatives to win an election before they return to their nests on the left.

You're an embarrassment to the conservative movement, along with the useless RINO leftist candidates that you not only tolerate, but actively endorse.  The good news is that your "warnings" fall on deaf ears, because people have recognized your senile, intolerant bullshit and quit taking you seriously years ago.

Matthew 7:5

I'll be honest, we've not been paying much attention to Loony Lew as he slides into irrelevancy.  He's mostly been preoccupied in keeping dissenting opinions silent on his closed facebook group that he apparently hasn't had much time to actually write anything on his fantasy page that we lampoon.  But recent scan through his nonsense revealed this gem from last May:

I can only assume he's griping about the "Taliban wing" of the Clark County Republican party.  The hysterical thing about this is the caveat at the very bottom of his page:

Lew has time on his hands now because he's stomped so thoroughly on any opinion that offends him in his fading little facebook group that anyone interested in actually debating an issue has fled to more liberty minded groups, where unpopular opinions are debated and derided but never censored.  This group of his used to be a hotbed of discussion and debate, but as the other admins who kept loony Lew in check lost interest, it became his own little sanctum where he was free to delete any commentary that didn't reflect his world view. 

Of course, Crazy Caroline Crain had to weigh in:

Really, Carolyn?  Less than a month later, on June 20, 2019, you denied entry to five long time Republican party members to a state party sponsored “Activate” event, because you personally disagreed with their positions and considered them troublemakers for their regular criticism of your exclusionary tactics.  They were sitting precinct committee officers who had tickets to the event.

Hypocrites, one and all.

Local Pundit Identifies Taliban in Clark County

So to bring you up to speed, The Clark County Establishment that has been controlling the local Republican party was narrowly defeated last Saturday.  After the delusional Carolyn Crain was savagely pounded in her quest for chairmanship of the party in the first round of voting, a run-off vote was conducted and the Conservative team of  Earl Bowerman and Brook Pell narrowly defeated the Establishment team of Barbie doll Stacie Jesser and Father-of-the-year Brian Gellatly.

It wasn't a clean sweep, as Joel Mattila hung onto his position as State Committeeman.  Apparently enough PCO's didn't see the hypocrisy of his pro-second amendment stance and the pathetic 911 call he made earlier this year because he was scared to meet with a group of people, because "they had guns." (Only one person in the group was armed, and he is well-known in the community to always be armed wherever he goes, and no one ever had a problem with it before.)

But Lew couldn't resist the chance to mend bridges and heal over old wounds:



Seriously, Lew?  You gotta be fucking kidding me!  Seriously?  You had to go there?  The "Taliban" wing?  Son, everyone has the right to be stupid, but you're abusing the privilege.

Let's recall that Lew has been a vocal champion of the recently removed David Gellatly chairmanship.

David Gellatly, who was nearly removed from his position for embezzling funds and writing large checks on behalf of the party without board approval.  He survived that because one LD chair was asleep at the switch and thoroughly confused.

David Gellatly, who filed a SLAPP (Strategic lawsuit against public participation) lawsuit against a PCO who exercised his first amendment right to free speech and protected political speech in an ill advised manner, with the express intent of ruining this man's life and quelling further public dissension.  (note that Washington does not have a SLAPP prohibition).

David Gellatly, who admitted in open court documents that he abused cocaine while sitting as chairman of the local Republican party.

David Gellatly, who worked with every fiber of his being to ensure that those whose opinions he disagreed with were silenced and frozen out of the party.

David Gellatly, who used the flimsiest excuses to refuse to comply with the legal requirement to open the books of his PAC as prescribed by elections law.

David Gellatly, who tried to get his own lawyer elected to the party treasurer position in order to hide his malfeasance.

Lew can't point at any such bad behavior on the part of the party faction he so hates, except the heinous crime of recruiting like-minded PCO's to run for office (kinda like what Carolyn Crain did this year, but she's his butt-buddy, so it's okay when she does it).  But the liberty caucus is the "Taliban."

Tell the doctor to up your meds, old man.

Of course this got out, and Bob Larimer lampooned Lew:

Now I'm a big Jeff Dunham fan, and Achmed the Dead Terrorist is just plain FUNNY, no matter how he'a applied.  It was the perfect rejoinder, showing how irrelevant Lew is, making light of him, and doing it in a tongue and cheek way.  No one takes Achmed seriously, because he's a frickin' hand puppet caricature!

Well, Lew has no sense of humor, and forgot that when you find you're in a hole, you need to stop digging.  He made the joke ten times funnier by responding:

Oooh, Bob invoked a hand puppet on Lew, so he's a DOMESTIC TERRORIST!

Of course Lew had to manfully challenge Bob to just try.  Completely missing the point that we're all over here laughing our asses off at his futile quest for relevance.

Of course, Crazy Carolyn Crain has to weigh in and stroke Lews fragile, shattered ego, as he so often strokes hers.  There's so much stroking going on between these two it's damn near obscene.

Wow.  Strong words coming from the one person who flatly refuses to cooperate on any level with anyone who has ever been perceived to have opposed her or even disagreed with her on the lightest pretext. From the Woman who created a shadow party for the county with the deliberate intent to fool the voters into thinking they were the legitimate, elected, Clark County Republican Party.  The woman who frequently staged walkouts to try to disrupt Central committee meetings when she didn't get he own way. Hypocrite, much, Carolyn?

Lew, it's *their*, not "there".

Nobody ever came after you out of spite, you nasty old goat.  You brought it on yourself when you were spreading hysterical lies about the perfidy of PCO's out recruiting like-minded individuals to run for office, and it was picked up by the local Democratian rag.  Oh, but this year Carolyn Crain did the exact same thing, but that's okay for some strange reason. Then you just kept doubling down on stupid to the point where it was like shooting fish in a barrel to poke holes in your lies, inconsistencies and pettiness. No one has ever tried to force you or anybody else to join our "hate cult."  We know you're a dead-ender and will never change. At issue is the fact that you take your stupidity public, and refuse to ever allow a public debate to take place to evaluate the nonsense you put forward in the marketplace of ideas.  So you could not and still cannot entertain a difference of opinion on any forum you control, and you will not engage in any forum you do not control. Why are you so butthurt when people choose to mock your idiocy on their own forums?  No one begrudges your opinion, you old fart.  Just have the balls to step up and defend your opinions against public scrutiny.  You can't and won't because your opinions are frequently indefensible

Yes, your military service has been ridiculed, because you tried to hide behind it.  You tried to turn your military service into a "get out of stupid free" card that would give you carte blanche to say whatever nonsense you wanted and have it be unimpeachable because, By God, you served!  Guess what, hypocrite?  So did many of the people you have used your public forum to malign, including David Madore, Frank Decker, Mark Engleman and Sean Emerson.  Where is your respect for their service, you pompous fraud?  Give me a break.

No, Lew, you're just not getting it.  We weren't attacking you or smearing you over that article.  We were pointing out the blatant hypocrisy and outright fucking lie when you had the balls to say to them, "What’s needed is to find a way to talk to each other. I’ve got firm convictions, firm principles. But at least be willing to listen to what other people have to say."

The next time you're willing to hear what other people have to say if they disagree with you will be the first.  Which is why you never appear except in forums where YOU control the microphone, and why you use your control to silence anyone who expresses a disagreement with your nonsense.  This blog, and the abuse you claim to suffer at its hands, would not exist if you had simply engaged people honestly in public forums, instead of silencing them and denying them their chance to disagree with you.

And, finally, Pretty boy David Gellatly has a question:



Not a fucking thing, little guy. He's a member of the community, and that's all the license he needs to offer his opinion on any topic. Something you never seemed to figure out in the two years you spent in search of the legacy that had been dropped in your lap, tied with a silver bow.

I would offer to take this blog down if Lew would dial back the unnecessary rhetoric a bit, clean out his block list and start allowing people to engage freely on the forums he controls without being censored when he doesn't like the answers.  But we tried that before, so we know that's not going to happen.  So, Lew, just keep saying stupid shit, and we'll keep pointing out why it's stupid here.

Lew Gets National Recognition

Lew's grumbling and grousing has managed to win national attention. Lew must have entered a contest or something, because the Wall Street Journal has recognized him as a "Fish out of Water."

"Lew Waters, 70, is a Vietnam veteran and retired auto technician living in Vancouver, Wash. Born and raised in the South, he says he has felt targeted many times for being a conservative in the Pacific Northwest. “I kind of feel like I have no representation,” he says."

Well, that's true enough.  The national Kook party hasn't fielded any candidates, so Lew is definitely not being represented.

"Lew feels misunderstood by people on both sides of the political spectrum. “I’ve been called a far-right freak. The far right calls me a liberal.” And that, he says, has made him feel like an outsider in his own community."

I'm not going to speak to what the left calls you, but no one, to my knowledge, has called him a liberal. He's unwittingly done yeoman's work for the Liberal cause by undermining the conservative movement in Clark County with his ill-informed prejudices and summary judgments against any and all who might disagree with him on the slightest subject.  I wouldn't call him a liberal, though, just a bitter old man who has a problem recognizing friends and foes, and who would rather support a dysfunctional Republican establishment rather than a real small-government conservative movement. If Lew feels like an outsider, it's because he's ostracized and silenced most everyone who shares his views because they may have disagreed with him on some point or other in the past. Lew has reaped what he has sown.

"What’s needed, Lew says, is to find a way to talk to each other. “I’ve got firm convictions, firm principles. But at least be willing to listen to what other people have to say."

HAH!  that is an outrageous lie.  I'm just shaking my head at the audacity of this fraud to say something like this!

Lew has never engaged in a discussion or conversation or debate in any forum that he does not exercise editorial control over.  He has silenced and blocked literally everyone who has disagreed with him on any substantive topic for at least the last four years.  This blog was created four years ago to counter the outrageous claims Lew was making on his personal political blog where no dissenting voices were ever given a chance to be heard.

The Facebook group, Southwest Washington Opinions, was once a vibrant discussion forum that allowed members of any political color to freely engage in debate and discussion.  Things tended to sometimes get heated, and silly ideas were exposed for what they were and made fun of.  Then someone got the bright idea of making Lew a moderator, and he started exercising his dictatorial control to remove and block anyone who became too effective at highlighting the flaws in his personal political beliefs.  The group has since shriveled into a pathetic echo chamber where little of substance is ever discussed, and the remaining core members sit and grouse about how bad they're treated by those they have ostracized. 

"It’s almost like our elected officials and the two major parties are just playing ‘get back’ on each other, you know. Never mind governing the country.”

I dunno, Lew says he's not represented, yet he observes politicians doing exactly what he does, playing "get back," instead of rationally discussing the problems at hand.  Lew takes everything personally, and if you've offended him in the past in some way, you're definitively incapable of having a good idea or being able to contribute to a discussion in his mind. Lew's irrational paranoia made him a partisan ally of the left when he went on the warpath to unseat David Madore, who was arguably the most honorable and effective leader to have ever sat on the County Council. Lew's intolerance of dissenting views has alienated most of those with whom he would normally agree.  The remaining Republicans that he hasn't alienated don't see politics as a vehicle to effect meaningful change to restore the constitutional balance and limits of government, they see it as a social club, useful for wielding power over those who aren't members of the club.  Lew knows this is wrong, but he's inflexible and unwilling to recognize that he's been his own worst enemy for the last four years.

A Confederacy of Dunces

Ever since Lew’s ideological purge of anyone who dared question his bloviating, the discussion group of Southwest Washington Opinions has turned into an echo chamber for the terminally clueless.  What was once a vibrant and rambunctious forum where views could be offered and discussed across a wide variety of viewpoints has been turned into a temple of navel-gazers who pass judgment on that of which they know little or nothing, and then congratulate one another on their perspicacity.

Recently Thomas Higdon posted some incoherent mumbling about “Libertarians” taking over control of the local GOP and having the audacity to recruit like-minded people for public office. This, of course, tickled Lew’s funny bone, because just like all Democrats see Republicans as Archie Bunker, Lew sees all libertarians as Ron Paul.  And Lew hates Ron Paul, to the point where he become hysterically inarticulate when the subject is raised.

Then the thread got fun when Lew tossed this into the mix:

Once upon a time, Lew fancied himself a journalist, with a pathetic hope that his buddy Lou Brancaccio at the Columbian fish wrap would pick him up as an editorial columnist. Any responsible journalist would try to get a comment from the person in question, present both sides of the story, etc.  What are the odds Lew would do that?  None, of course, because any reality check might dampen the evil picture Lew is trying to paint. 

Crazy Carolyn Crain pops up and wants proof:

Of course, if Crazy Carolyn Crain and her cronies want to see things like this, they should quit blocking anyone who puts a reality check on their delusions, gossip and insinuations.

Steven Nelson is only too happy to oblige, but conveniently edits the post, leaving out a significant clip where David Gellatly is quoted absurdly informing that a candidate for the 17^th LD chair is not allowed on the premises of the Clark County Republican Party Headquarters, because he has been “trespassed”.  (For the record, Gellatly claimed that the trespass order was arrived at by a unanimous vote of the executive committee in closed session.  The executive committee is not allowed to pass votes in closed session, those who were there unequivocally state that the vote was not unanimous, you cannot bar someone from a public meeting unless they are being disruptive at the moment, and no notice was given to the six individuals in question, nor a police report filed.)

But of course, Lew has no words addressing the absurdity of excluding a political candidate from a meeting where the election will take place. If this were one of Lew’s circle of cronies, this would be considered high treason and he would be shouting from the rooftops about the injustice. (It’s just politics when we do it.)

Then the county idiot Dino Ramzi throws his nonsense into the mix:

Uh, newsflash, Dino.  Second Amendment rights apply everywhere inside the United States of America.  The Clark County Republican Party does have the right to declare itself a gun-free zone on its private property, but has not, because the left would have a field day with that.  Can you imagine, the party that supports gun rights banning guns on its premises?  Anyway, guns, openly carried and concealed, are a common sight in Republican meetings, for a variety of reasons. 

Then Dino suggests that defamatory publicity be banned from the party.  Nice of him to pontificate on behalf of a party that he has repeatedly and publicly denied having anything to do with.  I wonder if he means all of the malicious gossip Lew and Carolyn pitched by the bale while Kenny Smith was chairman?  No, I suspect the issue of defamation would be determined by a star chamber composed of Lew, Carolyn and their like-minded sociopaths.

Of course, the next time Dr. Dino says anything that makes sense will be the first.

Then David Knight, one of the few remaining people in the group capable of clear thought, corrected Dino, and was promptly put in his place by Carolyn:

“Crazy People” Carolyn?  Oh, you mean that group of duly elected officers of the County Republican party who happen to disagree with your nonsense.  Blocking Republicans from office?  Carolyn seems to be talking about the 2015 meeting when the Central Committee voted to withhold endorsement of Marc Boldt in his race for the County Chair position.  Marc Boldt did not run as a Republican, he ran (and is running again) as “No Party Preference,” and was then and remains under party censure from his previous shenanigans while in government office.  Crain and her group of lickspittles staged a walkout from that meeting in an attempt to break the Quorum and stop the meeting.  Of course, in typical style, they didn’t leave one of their own in the meeting to make a quorum call, so even if they did have the numbers, it wouldn’t have mattered.

But even if you don’t think that was disruptive, Crazy Caroline has been nothing but disruptive in many other ways.  In spite of the contribution she could make to the party, she refuses to cooperate in any way with those she considers her political enemies.  She has staged numerous walkouts in protest because her silliness wasn’t adopted by the party, and she formed the Republicans of Clark County PAC, which she designed as a disingenuous  unelected mirror organization to fool the vast majority of uninformed voters that the elected Clark County Republican Party supported candidates that it was diametrically opposed to. She has been openly and publicly critical of anyone in the party who she feels has slighted her – this list is long and distinguished.  Her PAC has supported Democrats like Ann Ogle and her associations and coffee dates make it clear that she has more friends in the Democrat party than the Republican Party.  One has to ask why the hell she even identifies as a Republican, given that she hates so many of them.  Honestly, if the Democratic party wanted to plant a ringer in the local CCRP to disrupt things and confuse people, the only person it could find better than Carolyn Crain for the job would be David Gellatly.

But let’s back up to Lew’s original post.  Seems like it wouldn’t be too hard to find out what Emerson meant when he posted that ill-considered remark, and well, hell, right there on a thread in the group 3rdCongressional District Republicans WA State, he explained what he meant and why he said what he did.  What are the chances this will find its way into Lew’s narrative?

Of course, David Gellatly can never keep his mouth shut when his veracity is challenged.

But the truth is a whimsical concept to David, subject to revision and reinvention from moment to moment.  Rick Halle stepped in to set the record straight.  This, of course, led to volumes of backing and filling by DRG until it devolved to schoolyard name calling, which is about where his emotional development got arrested.

Further down Higdon's thread, other rational people in the group apparently gave Higdon and Lew’s Libertarian nonsense a reality check, because Lew exercised his privilege as thought police and shut it all down and posted his little tantrum:

Apparently the debate wasn’t going well for the Oligarchy.  David Knight, risking banishment, reflected correctly on Lew’s inconstancy and hypocrisy. 

You are only allowed to criticize those that Lew disagrees with.  Unfortunately for Lew, this is not a tyrannical dictatorship with thought police ensuring that only approved discussions are conducted.  Yet. But Lew and Carolyn are doing their best to get there.

When you look at nonsense like this, it’s no wonder that the Southwest Washington Opinions group has become so moribund.  Those actually interested in discussing opposing views concerning the area have fled to Opinions of Southwest Washington, where the thought police don’t patrol and censorship is virtually nonexistent.  Of course, the likes of Lew and Carolyn would never venture there, because they can’t exist outside their safe space where their absurd views actually get challenged in the marketplace of ideas.

Grumbles from the Sidelines

Lew has openly expressed his disdain for political parties on many occasions, since the Democrats are full of ideological moonbats and the Republicans are in an existential struggle for control between constitutional, limited government patriots and wolf in sheep's clothing oligarchs who've controlled the party for far too long. Of course, if we would all just shut up and run the country according to Lew, we would have happy, prosperous lives and our political masters could suck off the teat of our productivity unmolested.  It must drive the old goat insane that he's announced himself irrelevant to both parties, since he defines himself by his pursuit of relevancy.

Perhaps it's this pursuit that drove him to mumble this latest gem of incoherency.

No one is sure who exactly this is addressed to, since no one appears to be using veterans as "political pawns," but we are sure that if it was one of Lew oligarchical Republicans, he wouldn't be highlighting the issue.

These are strange words from someone who sought to immunize himself from political criticism by wrapping himself in the American flag and claiming that because he was a Vietnam Vet, he had some sort of moral authority that made it socially unacceptable to criticize him.  Never mind that Lew's sole contribution to the Vietnam conflict was to make sure the Jesus nut on a helicopter was tight, a job he could have just as easily done at Ft. Campbell, KY as in Vietnam. Lew was in more danger chasing tail down in the 'ville than he was at his duty station.

Should we apply this same sort of logic to known leftist kook and Korean war vet Ed Barnes, who routinely forces his idiocy on us in public comments to the County Council?  The next time that moron says anything that makes sense will be the first.

Lew is all about supporting veterans, except when he forgets that many of the people he derides and seeks to silence, among them David Madore, Frank Decker, Mark Engleman, Sean Emerson, Kelly Hinton and others, are also veterans.  But they not the right kind of veterans to be respected by Lew, just like they're not the right kind of Republicans.

Cocaine is Okay, as long as you're Lew's sort of Republican

"We don't need no stinkin' facts!"

So, Crazy Lew, in a knee jerk response to a perceived attack on one of his cronies, graced us with this nugget of idiocy concerning the admitted drug abuse by Clark County Republican Chairman David Gellatly:

Of course, Lew is an authority, because he would never mouth off on something unless he had thoroughly investigated it. . .oh, wait, this is Lew we're talking about.  Let's see, did his wife claim that David used Cocaine? Let's have a gander at the public court documents. . .

Ah, shit, Lew, that's not an accusation by Davey's ex, that's HIM talking?  Lew, do you understand the difference between an accusation and an admission? In fact, his ex never had any intention of publicly accusing David of his drug problem, and expressed her surprise in her response:

But never mind, let's just wave our hands airily, after all only using it twice isn't something I'm concerned about because Davey is my kind of Republican -- i.e. he's pure establishment, and stands with me against those evil liberty minded republicans who *gasp* want the people to have a say in government!  Oh, the horror, can you imagine the chaos that would ensue if the rank and file American citizen were to be heard in the halls of power?

Christ, Lew, if this were even a slight rumor about David Madore, you would be calling for torches and pitchforks and a hangman'noose.  But since Davey Gellatly's your butt-buddy, never mind, pass the mirror and let's all do a line or two.

Where I come from, that makes you a fucking hypocrite, you sour old windbag.

And the same goes for you, too, Carolyn Crain.

Purge Him Before He Purges You!

The slaughter of the opinionated continues on Lew's newest little sanctum.  As the ship of David Gellatly (DRG) continues to take on water and sink, Lew continues to double down on stupid, until he's booting people who are complaining about the number of people he's booting.

Southwest Washington Opinions aren't allowed, unless those opinions conform to the groupthink of Lew Waters.  You are not allowed to express an opinion that casts a shadow on the already disreputable CCRP chairman.

First Lew claims the group was established to discuss "other issues."  However, a careful examination of the group charter doesn't reveal what issues are or aren't acceptable to discuss.  By the name, Southwest Washington Opinions are, well, opinions.  And it seems everybody has an opinion on the admitted drug use of CCRP chair David Gellatly, but those are verboten, because it's embarrassing to Lew for having backed such a loser..

Then Lew characterizes DRG's admitted drug use as a "gimmick" to force him to step aside.  Is there no depth of the swamp that Lew will not go to fly his flag?  How about all the "gimmicks" that Lew used to discredit David Madore?  Madore did nothing to deserve the vitriol that Lew published on a daily basis about him, but Lew's Establishment poster child pops positive for Coke, Methamphetamines and Methadone, and  Lew just airily dismisses it as a "gimmick."  The only reason this slimy swamp dweller is still in position as the CCRP chair is because of hypocritical low-lifes like Lew Waters who will go to any length to preserve their power, even if it means supporting an admitted drug user.

Lew feels that the discussion is slipping out of control and, unable to defend his absurd position, he goes on the attack, falling victim to the Tu Quoque logical fallacy: He avoided having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accusers.  Of course, it backfires, because Rick Halle is heavily involved with the issue Lew tries to trip him on.

Flopping around like a gasping bottom feeder, Lew ends his torment, demonstrating again why he will never, ever engage in a discussion on a forum where he doesn't control the microphone. This, old man, is why you're irrelevant, because you will not broker honest and open discussions about issue that people obviously care about.

Back a little ways, Lew has started preemptively enforcing his no criticism rule, shutting down posts and booting people for even mentioning Gellatly:

This is the sum of the post.  No criticism, no opinion expressed in any way.  But Lew is now the thought police, so he knows that Dan Clark was up to no good:

 

So now we are not even allowed to mention Gellatly, even if there is no criticism, unless our hearts are pure.  And Lew gets to decide whose hearts are pure.

Then Tom weighs in and tries to add a measure of reason to the insanity, and as a result, Lew, in typical fashion, shuts down the conversation.

God bless, Lew, he's just the gift that keeps on giving!

PUBLIC NOTICE

Purges will continue in Southwest Washington Opinions until all opinions conform with the Establishment.

The Swamp Creature Returns

Irish lawyer and politician John Philpot Curran stated that, “The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”  Sadly, the time has come that we have to dust off this blog and again to raise a voice against an irritating little thug in a forum where he doesn't control the narrative.

Lew Waters has been a thin-skinned snowflake for years before the millennials popularized being a snowflake.

Lew gave up his Clark County conservative “news blog” long ago  after his readership tanked and bottomed out with only his inner circle of avid sycophants reading it. You see, the thing about Lew is that he will never engage in a political dialogue on a forum where he doesn’t control the microphone. Lew is genetically incapable of defending his inconsistencies and prejudice in the open market of ideas, so the only means he has of making himself feel good about what he says is to silence all dissenting opinions. Awash in his persecution complex, he brands those who disagree with them as “Brown shirts,” “thugs,” and “Nazis.” The irony of these epithets are completely lost on Lew in his efforts to limit free speech, silence political opponents and ensure that the only message that gets publicity is the one of which he personally approves.

The closing of his blog must have caused Lew a damn near incurable case of political constipation. Ever the junkie, he couldn’t help but get his toe into the water in political discussion groups on social media. Of course, Lew never actually gets involved unless he controls the microphone, but that’s okay, because he and Bill Cismar are establishment butt-buddies from way back, so Bill made him an admin on this group, Southwest Washington Opinions.  Lew found his safe space, where he could pontificate on matters political, pass judgement with Crazy Caroline Crain on who is and isn’t a real Republican, and run interference for the current establishment loser running the Clark County Republican Party.

Lew hides behind the group rule of “No smearing opinions of another member.”  This rule was specifically put in place by Cismar as the David Gellatly protection rule.  Seems the county chairman needs a safe space where he can float his lies without anyone calling him out on his abuses since he was voted in as Chairman.  Cismar specifically said that it doesn’t matter whether what you post is true or not:  if you have a negative opinion about David Gellatly, you are not allowed to post it.  The Group should be renamed, “Southwest Washington Opinions that do not contradict or criticize the Establishment cabal led by David Gellatly.”

You are free to post your opinions on this group, as long as they conform to the opinion of Lew Waters.  Any opinion that Lew finds offensive will be branded as a personal attack and deleted, and the person summarily removed from the group.  If everybody is agreeing, then nobody is thinking, and that’s the way Lew and his fellow swamp dwellers like it.

Lew is a staunch Never-Trumper, because Trump promised to drain the swamp, which would disrupt the ecosystem that Lew enjoys so much, where Republicans do the bidding of Democrats and tell the plebes how life is to be.  Lew is apparently miffed that Trump didn’t clear it with him before he called himself a Republican, because we all know you can’t really be a Republican until Lew Waters and Crazy Carolyn Crain has blessed you.

In the latest revelations of the rapidly descending, impending crash of flight David Gellatly, public records from his divorce show that he admitted in court documents that he has abused cocaine at least twice since he became Chairman of the CCRP.  Of course, Crazy Carolyn Crain claims  that these are spurious allegations thrown around in family court, and not to take them seriously.  Her lobotomy must have damaged her critical thinking skills, since these weren’t allegations, they were admissions on the part of Gellatly, who’s ex-wife expressed surprise at, since she was inclined to keep that part of the divorce a private matter.

Had any of Lew’s enemies – which are legion – had such misbehavior made public, Lew would be at the front of the line, disparaging them, calling for resignations, and telling us how he knew all along that this was a bad egg. If David Madore had taken legal action against the many lies that were published defaming his good name, Lew would have been calling for torches and pitchforks. But Davey is the Establishment, a fellow swamp denizen, and gets Lew’s support and protection.  The Establishment swamp dwellers are hypocritically circling the wagons to protect their own. Ann Donnelly, Crazy Carolyn Crain, Lew Waters, Casey Kostman, Bill Cismar, and the rest of the swamp dwellers (Brent Boger has been strangely quiet) will defend Gellatly no matter how egregious his behavior, because he’s the “right kind” of Republican.

Gellatly’s substance abuse revelations have added to the public concern started by his attempt to stifle uncomfortable questions about his financial irresponsibility with party funds by suing a member of his own party with a SLAPP suit –  thus ruining the lives of a family for merely suggesting that an investigation should be conducted – his reckless tendency to antagonize anyone for the slightest criticism about the party and how he runs it, his purge of elected committee members who disagree with him, and a myriad of other abuses of power and mismanagement.  The drug abuse has been the last straw for many members of his own party who have to now given him the benefit of the doubt.

The outrage expressed against Gellatly has prompted a slough of purges from Lew's group.  Anyone who voices their disgust at Gellatly gets the boot from Lew.  Pretty soon the group will be reduced to Lew's normal circle of sycophants and a bunch of lurkers who probably turned off notifications for the group years ago.  Even if you don't get the boot, discussion will be terminated, as Lew will turn off comments on any posts that don't promise rainbows and sunshine for his cokeheaded boy. Here is an example:

Lew defends his actions by claiming there are more important things to talk about (like impeaching Trump, I should think)

So according to Lew, the fact that the current chairman of the CCRP may have embezzled money from the party, has sued an elected member of the central committee with a SLAPP suit, and has admitted to using illegal drugs multiple times while in office is not relevant, and not worth discussions, and no one is allowed to have opinions about it on a group he manages.  Lew, does any light penetrate into your corner of the swamp at all?

Then, as he is hypocritically prone to do, Lew starts complaining:

Wow.  From the man who does nothing but set absurd standards, this is so ironic.  Lew sets standards of who can and can't be a Republican, who can or can't hold office (Madore), who can or can't have an opinion on a forum he manages.  The guy is a tyrant!  Here's a challenge, Lew: Go defend your  positions in a forum where you don't control the microphone. Go on over to Opinions of Southwest Washington and make some noise, and see how small the few people are who disagree with you. Free speech and vigorous debate are valued there, and if someone gets called names, there are no safe spaces or cry closets.