Lew Renders Judgement

There's a couple of ways of parsing Lew's latest grousing.  Charitably, if one is innocent, then one is unaware of worldly or complex things, ignorant of the dark side of life.  If we are to take Lew's comments this way, then he's rendering a compliment, saying, in effect, that his fellow conservatives are seasoned veterans who are aware of the ins and outs of politics.

Does anyone here really think Lew meant it that way?  No?  Me neither.

No, I'm pretty sure Lew means we are not innocent, as in the opposite of guilty.  If his named culprits aren't innocent, then they must be. . . GUILTY! 

Guilty of what? One may very well ask.  Given that Lew has yet to answer a single question brought forward in this venue to substantiate the accusations he's leveled at his detractors, he has no evidential case to present except his own rhetoric, wildly inaccurate assumptions and empty accusations of unethical behavior. His entire case collapses like a house of cards at the slightest cross-examination, which is why he's not answered any questions posed to him by those he accuses.

The interesting thing is that Lew encourages people to review the posts to see the history.   Do those posts include the comments and threads that were deleted by Lew that he had no answer to and showed how much hot air he was full of?  Of course not! 

So the verdict is guilty!  And the crime is. . . .Well, disagreeing with THE Clark County Conservative, apparently. 

Ah, I love the sound of a good debate in the morning!  It reminds me of. . .. Freedom.

Lew Weighs in on the Importance of Energy

Lew Waters reposted an article from 2011 on Energy, and knocked it out of the park.  Jump over there and give it a good read.  It's worth your time.

Brown Shirts and Paulbots and Liberals, oh my!

Lew Waters continues to grouse about the fact that people have the right to challenge his foolishness in public:

We at Lew Waters Watch aren't interested in get Lew to align with us.  And calling a public speaker to task on factually incorrect things he says is not berating, smearing or lying. No one has called Lew Waters a Shit-smearer like he called Frank Decker, nor has anyone suggested that Lew sleeps around, like he suggested that one of the candidates for State legislature does.

No one is smearing Lew.  He's perfectly capable of doing that without our help.  We're just calling attention to it when he does.

Is Lew feeling a little paranoid?  It seems so:

We're scratching our heads over how a public repudiation and disavowal of violence constitutes a threat.  Oh, perhaps the advice we gave made Lew think we were suggesting something.  Let's put this in context:

Don't play in the freeway.  You might get hit by a car.  Just some friendly advice that everyone should heed.

Don't wash your face in sulphuric acid.  It's not really good for your complexion.  Just some friendly advice that everyone should heed.

These are not threats, they're just practical advice for avoiding trouble. Maybe Lew's upbringing didn't school him on what constitutes acceptable public behavior.

I'm not aware of any "Department" of the sheriff.  I know there's a Sheriff's Office.

Seriously folks, if you're contemplating violence or vandalism or any sort of overt display, don't. Just don't.

Lew then indulges in flights of fancy, twisting simple truths to fit his  strange world view, and making up outright lies.

No one "enlisted" Lisa Ross.  It is our understanding at LWW that Lisa made the decision to run on her own, without anyone in the office of the party encouraging her to do so. Has Lew actually interviewed Lisa and discovered the actual decision process she went through to choose to run?  Of course not!  Why bother with journalistic integrity and objectivity when you can create the news to fit your agenda?

We at LWW are familiar with the canvassing efforts and grass-roots door knocking.  We are absolutely sure that no one suggested that Carolyn is not a conservative, nor was there a suggestion that signs be replaced. There is nothing unethical about discussing the relative merits of one candidate over another with one's neighbors. This is politics at its most basic level. For someone who screams "brownshirts!" at the drop of a pin, Lew seems to be awfully quick to try to silence people who disagree with him, and to impugn the motives of those who publicly support their favored candidates.  Lew's insinuations here are an out and out lie, and evidence that his blog has nothing to do with journalism, but is just biased gossip based on wild speculation fueled by conspiracy theory paranoia.

To recap:
First of all, we have to understand that Lew Waters has a visceral, incoherent hatred for Ron Paul and anyone who endorses him. While it's perfectly rational to debate some of the more strange ideas of this group, Lew doesn't do debate, and insists that members of this group are minions of the Antichrist, dead-set on destroying America. 

First question that Lew assiduously fails to answer as he paints everyone who disagrees with him as Nazis and brownshirts:

1.   How does adhering to the letter of the Constitution, as Ron Paul supporters do, represent a threat to the nation?

This public push-back against Lew began when he manufactured a tempest in a teapot about normal political activity, spun it so it sounded like he was breaking a scoop about corruption in the Clark County Republican party, and his byline was picked up by a blogger for the Columbian newspaper.  What had Lew so worked up was that *gasp* people were actually contacting other like-minded people and encouraging them to become active in the local Republican party.

Oh, the horror.

Lew spun this to say that the Party was  trying to "secretly" stack the deck in favor of their agenda, using inflammatory insinuations to make it sound as if this was something entirely unethical, and borderline illegal.  Next thing you know he will be accusing the party of matriculating with thespians!

So a few more questions for Mr. Waters to address in his next blog:

2. Why is recruiting like-minded citizens to become active is not acceptable?

3. If we're not allowed to recruit like-minded individuals, who, then, are we allowed to recruit?

4. Please explain the charge that anything was done in secret. Can Lew Waters produce a legal requirement or party by-law that states that he be notified of all activities of any group of politically active people?

5. If you were to recruit someone in your neighborhood to be a precinct officer, would you not first try someone who most closely reflected your values and beliefs?

6. In 2012,  CCRP Chairman Ryan Hart was actively recruiting PCO candidates to try to counter the growing influence of Ron Paul supporters in the local Republican Party.  Why was this an acceptable act, but not if the PCO Liberty Alliance does the exact same thing?

The interesting thing is that while Lew was trying to manufacture a scandal out of thin air, an actual scandal was unfolding.  A WSRP operative from the Puget Sound area, Richard ‘Apollo’ Fuhriman, was taking PCO recruitment in Clark county seriously, to the point of actually filing for candidates without their knowledge or approval! In spite of smoking gun evidence of unethical malfeasance, Lew not only ignored it, but airily dismissed it.  He was too busy hunting "Paul-bots" to be concerned about what anyone was doing. The fact that his witch-hunt got noticed by the Columbian, who gleefully printed his conspiracy theory because it made the Republican party look bad and furthered the objective of the left-leaning newspaper, just validated Lew's vendetta.

Lew has labeled the caucus that currently controls the CCRP as "Radicals." More questions for Lew:

7.  How is working for a smaller, constitutional government by the people and for the people radical? 

8. Why is a dedication to fiscal responsibility radical?

9. Why is choosing our leadership rather than having it chosen for us by people who are not even part of our community radical?

10. Lew Waters has called the CCRP leadership "extremist."  Exactly what policies have been promoted at a local county level by ANYONE identified as a conservative that can be deemed "extremist"?

11. Lew has asserted that Ron Paul Libertarians have "snuck" [sic] into the party as PCO's. PCO is an elected position. How does one "sneak" into a party as a PCO?

12. Where are the requirements enumerated that Lew seems to think are necessary to be a member of the Republican party?

And one final question for the Clark County Conservative, if we may:

13. Will Lew Waters have the class to publicly apologize for insinuating in a moment of unbridled anger that Lisa Ross sleeps around, both to Mrs. Ross and to her male campaign workers who were implicated?

There we have thirteen questions for the Clark County Conservative which will promote a healthy discussion and hopefully clear away the fog of lies and obfuscation cast by someone with a vendetta and a blog.  Will these questions be answered, or will the answer be further accusations that someone is trying to silence Lew Waters?  How can asking pointed questions be construed as a nazi-like tactic to silence someone? 

The answers - or lack thereof - will show the measure of the man, and demonstrate the depth - or lack thereof - of his ability to discuss his ideas in an objective public forum. Can Lew Waters remain relevant without directly answering his critics on the merits of their arguments?

Who in the Hell is Lew Waters to Try to Dictate What is Posted on This Blog?

In Lew's latest offering, he spent an amazing amount of effort defending himself.  Let's break down his invective piece by piece and see if it holds any water:

"As you all know, this blog and its author have been under anonymous assault" 

Lew Waters has never been under assault.  If someone disagrees with your public statements and challenges them in a public forum, that is not an assault, that is a debate.  A debate, we might add, that Lew has bee spectacularly unwilling to engage in, maybe because he knows his point of view is rubbish.  The fact that Lew continually thinks that public calls to set the record straight equate to an assault on him just shows the depth of the man's inability to distinguish reality.

" operatives of the Clark County R3publican Party"

Nope! This screed is starting to be comical. Lew Waters Watch operates without the sanction, approval or guidance of any party or candidate.  Just one independent citizen calling BS on another independent citizen's BS. If Lew thinks that this is part of some greater dark conspiracy, then I suggest his tinfoil hat is wound a bit too tight.

". . .disapprove of my calling myself a conservative, even to naming this blog as conservative. . ."

Not the case at all.  What we at LWW disapprove of is you, in your guise as a Conservative, trying to define what a conservative is, and publicly deriding other conservatives in Clark county who don't fit your myopic definition to the detriment of the conservative movement and the betterment of the Liberals.  The Democrat party is having a field day with Lew's public paranoid nonsense, to the point of citing his specious accusations in the Columbian to try to drive an unnecessary rift in the Republican party. Basically, Lew's not doing anyone any favors,  hurting his own cause.

"Contrary to what they may think, they neither own rights to conservatism nor do they sit in any position of authority to define or dictate who is and is not conservative by their narrow, disillusioned views."

Contrary to what Lew may think, he neither owns rights to conservatism nor does he sit in any position of authority to define or dictate who is and is not conservative by his narrow, disillusioned views.

"Since these people proclaim they are the true defenders of liberty, where do they get off establishing a smear site aimed at one person that disagrees with their “in your face” tactics and refuses to support their hand-picked candidates?"

If Lew claims to support liberty, then why is he complaining when a fellow citizen exercises their liberty to comment on his public offerings?  Lew certainly has a right to have his blog and say any damn thing he wants to on it.  And we at Lew Water's watch have the right to have our blog and say any damn thing we want to.  And if what we have to say is commentary on his paranoid, ill-conceived and ill-informed nonsense, then where does he get off saying that we can't speak our opinion in a public forum and have it heard? 

Lew's first amendment rights guarantee his right to free speech, but it does not mean that his free speech can be used without consequences. By what stretch of logic does Lew assert that his public offerings are immune to counter-argument, fact-checking and reality checks? Where does his right to exempt himself from derision, scorn, satire and embarrassment come from, a right that not even presidents have?

"They are fond of throwing out the invective “establishment” in a pejorative manner, parroting the 1960’s long haired, dope smoking Liberal Hippies, unaware that now that they have seized control of the local party, they are “the establishment.”

Perhaps so, and if so, we're quite proud of the changes the new management has brought to the local party.  Decisions are made at a lower level, by the quorum of elected party representatives, and not handed down by a select group of a few central committee members who are working under direction from a state or national party level. Nevertheless, the changes wrought in Clark county which have promoted the cause of conservatism and grass-roots politics are the exception, not the norm in the National Republican Party, which is still in control of a small group of people who do not share the rank and file conservatism that we in Clark County do.  These are the ones we identify as the "Establishment," and there is an element of this establishment in Clark County that's pretty cheesed that they have lost power.  The fractious PCO races this cycle show the lengths to which the establishment is willing to go to try to regain power, apparently so they can hand it back to Olympia and Washington DC.  If you feel that political power bests rests at the lowest level possible, as close to the communities it affects as possible, then you should be supporting the currently elected Republican party of Clark County, instead of standing on the sidelines inventing libelous stories to try to discredit them.

" this latest flare-up seems to be on behalf of RLC candidate Lisa Ross and my not supporting her."

Not at all.  Again, Lew's paranoia inhibits his ability to see cause and effect, and to distinguish the truth. This later flare-up is a result of lies posted under the guise of journalism aimed at directly discrediting a conservative candidate.  To quote:

"And we see it when a strong Republican candidate is undermined behind the scenes by party operatives in favor of an inexperienced novice because someone carries a personal grudge against the stronger candidate."

Fact: There is no evidence that Ms. Crain is or was a "strong" candidate.  That is entirely a subjective opinion, and not an opinion shared by 59.42% of the Republican votes cast in the Aug 5th election.

Fact: No "party operatives" had anything to do with the election outcome.  "Party Operatives" implies that someone is operating with the approval, support, endorsement and assistance of the party. Yes, members of the party publicly campaigned for Lisa Ross.  That is their right to do as individuals, and I guarantee that anyone who did so was very careful to convey that their endorsement was a personal endorsement, and not a party endorsement (As if anyone really cares who the party endorses anyway.  From my experience talking to people, they're so sick of the Republican brand, thanks to Boehner and friends, that a party endorsement is a kiss of death).  I should point out that members of the party also campaigned for Carolyn, in exactly the same fashion. Where is the outrage that "party operatives" were undermining Lisa's campaign?  It's politics, Lew. 

Fact: No one undermined Carolyn's campaign, except perhaps herself. The mark of an adult is someone who can take responsibility for success or failure and deal with it realistically, instead of casting around for someone to blame.  We at LWW are willing to bet that the majority of votes cast in the election had been subjected to no influence from either campaign, and simply chose what they saw as the better candidate. Lisa ran a better, smarter, more effective campaign, and was a more qualified, more electable candidate. The elections results definitively confirm this. Get over it, and support the Conservative in November.  You certainly have the right to disagree with that and say so publicly, and we at LWW have the right to publicly challenge you when you do so.  The only thing Lew has his panties in a wad over is that he's used to being able to silence dissenting opinions and control the dialog, which is why he's so worked up about this blog and throws such a temper tantrum every time we say something that calls his opinions into question.

Fact: No one carries a personal grudge against any candidate - at least not on the part of Lew's mysterious "party operatives."  Carolyn Crain is a passionate conservative with an encyclopedic knowledge of issues who could be very very useful to any campaign or political cause to which she lent her abilities.  Just because some people chose to support a different candidate does not reflect a personal grudge.  We can look through the PDC records, and many of the people castigated in Lew's blog are on record financially supporting Carolyn's campaign of 2012. Nor are we aware of any action on the part of any candidate that would foster any sort of grudge.  It seems the only people holding grudges are the ones who failed to achieve their election goals. 

So this latest flare-up has nothing to do with who Lew supports or doesn't support. We have just identified four factually incorrect assumptions from a single sentence of the Clark County Conservative blog, which were made with malicious intent to discredit the Republican nominee for the state legislature.  The escalation of this flare-up is the further result of the original author throwing a temper tantrum that someone would challenge him in a forum he doesn't control to the point of publicly slandering the candidate by suggesting she sleeps around - a suggestion that will buy you a knuckle sandwich in many social circles.

"Lisa Ross has remained completely silent throughout the entire smear / attack campaign on her behalf which indicates to me she is even more unqualified to hold public office than previously believed."

That or she has more class than to get down and roll around in the mud with an irrelevant troll with a blog who has publicly repudiated the Republican party . . .

"How silly that not supporting her is considered “attacking” her."

Lew's memory seems to be failing.  How is calling the elected candidate "an inexperienced novice" not an attack? 

"endorsing incumbent Republican 3rd Congressional District Representative, Jaime Herrera Beutler was “spurned,""

Factually incorrect.  The issue never came to the floor, not for Jaime and not for any candidate. There were no motions to endorse of withhold the endorsement of any candidate.  Any PCO can bring a motion to the floor. Is it Lew's position that not one of the more than 90 PCO's present supported Jaime?  Preposterous.  Again, Lew needs to do better research before throwing insinuations around.

"Yet, it is DEMANDED of Independent voters to get behind Lisa Ross?"

Nope.  That also never came to the floor.  No one has demanded Lew or anyone else does anything.  When Lew publicly makes factually incorrect statements that undermine the conservative movement of Clark County, under the guise of "Clark County Conservative", those statements deserve to be challenged. We don't even demand that Lew refrain from making factually incorrect statements, although we find it astonishingly funny that he would demand that we quit pointing it out when he does.  Nor do we demand that Lew quit acting like a spoiled child when he stands corrected, instead of discussing his specious statements on their merits. The readership is quite capable of discerning that Lew has yet to actually challenge what's said here at LWW on its merits.

"He may even issue another call for me to be visited to be “spoken to in no uncertain terms.”"

Lew's mouth seems to have a habit of writing checks his ass isn't prepared to cash. Lew Waters Watch does not endorse, condone or encourage any sort of violence.  Let it be known henceforth that if anyone takes umbrage at Lew's slander and cold-cocks him, that they did so on their own recognizance, and have no association or endorsement by Lew Waters Watch.  For Lew's own safety, I would strongly advise he refrain in the future from speculating about who candidates sleep with. Especially if they have very large husbands.

Lew Waters Watch also maintains its public call for Lew to retract that statement, and issue a public apology to Lisa Ross and all her male campaign workers.  To do any less shows that Lew Waters has no integrity and is unwilling to take responsibility when he crosses the line of propriety.

This blog will continue to exercise its freedom and liberty to point out factual errors and omissions made by a public blogger who claims to speak for Conservatives.  No one is asking anyone to "toe" any line.  Just be sure, for your own peace of mind, that any public offerings can be justified on their merits, and please be prepared to make such justification if challenged, instead of crying like a spoiled brat because someone had the temerity to say "Hey!  Wait a minute!  That's not right!"

So far Lew has yet to actually answer any of the criticisms made here on this blog, except to cry that he's persecuted, and invent fantastic conspiracy theories to try to explain the simple fact that someone finally got tired of his unnecessarily divisive BS and decided to call him on it.  If you think about it, when the Columbian uses your blog as the source for a story to discredit the Republican party, somewhere along the lines you may have detoured from the path of conservatism.

It's really quite hilarious the lengths to which Lew has gone, and the energy he has expended trying to discover the identity of the "cabal" behind Lew Waters Watch.  Effort and energy that would have been much better spent trying to ensure his public offerings were objective and factually correct.

Again, it is our sincerest hope that the level of objectivity and journalistic dedication to reporting the facts increases so as to make this blog irrelevant.  Such an outcome would be a credit to Lew Waters, a service to all conservatives of Clark County, and win-win for all concerned. 

Lew feels stalked

In an attempt to suppress the free expression of dissent and deny the second amendment rights of free citizens of Clark County, Lew waves a cyberstalking law.  Apparently, publicly pointing out when someone makes an absurd public statement constitutes cyber-stalking in Lew's world.  We fail to understand why Lew feels he has the right to throw criticism and libelous and scandalous insinuations around with impunity, but when someone calls him on it and holds his feet to the fire, suddenly it's cyber-stalking.  How does this law apply to Lew's previous public statements, where he called one reader a "shit-smearer" and publicly slandered a political hopeful by suggesting she sleeps around?

No one is trying to harass, intimidate, torment, or embarrass Lew.  We are simply answering his publicly inaccurate statements when he makes them.  He has made himself a public figure with his writing.  He has been quoted by the local news source, the Columbian. It's incumbent on the people to identify when someone makes an inaccurate statement and respond with the truth.  This is the stuff that political discourse is made of, to allow the public to see multiple viewpoints, the better to make their decisions.  When called on his inaccuracies, Lew has never once substantiated his libelous claims with facts or evidence, but instead has embarked on a scorched earth campaign to silence his critics at all costs.  This is just more of the same.

"lewd, lascivious, indecent, or obscene words, images, or language, or suggesting the commission of any lewd or lascivious act"

Oh, like calling a private citizen a "shit-smearer," (obscene) or suggesting a candidate sleeps around (lewd or lascivious)?  Seriously. People in glass houses. . . . We at Lew Waters watch have never publicly impugned Lew Waters personally, on the contrary, we have repeatedly acknowledged the valuable service he has done for the conservative community in the past and called for him to return to the fold.  There is a significant difference between an attack on an idea and an attack on the person. When you put your ideas into the public conversation, don't get offended when people publicly disagree with them and ridicule them if they deserve it.

We at Lew Waters Watch have never gone out of our way to infringe on the privacy of Mr. Waters.  We respect his privacy, and quite frankly, we have no interest in tormenting or harassing him.  We have always confined The Watch to responding to his public commentary, and we have done so publicly.  We have never sent private messages to Mr. Waters, or attempted to disrupt his private life, which we respect.

Lew Waters Watch has never threatened Lew Waters in any way, nor has it made public any private information about Mr. Waters that is not freely available from any number of public sources.  If Mr. Waters feels physically threatened, we at the Watch suggest that perhaps he realized that he has made some statements which would result in an immediate violent physical reaction in many face to face venues, and he fears his words may have landed him in hot water. If I were him, I would certainly fear a meeting with the husband of the candidate whom he slandered. We at Lew Waters watch do not condone or encourage violence of any sort.

No communication has been made directly to Lew Waters.  All commentary has been confined to comments on his public blog forum (which have for the most part been moderated and refused, since Lew doesn't like to debate on a level playing field), or in this public forum. As private citizens, we at Lew Waters watch have the right to publicly ridicule our government or any other public figure. Lew Waters has made himself a public figure with his public journal, and has no basis to claim immunity from criticism when he makes factually incorrect statements or slanders people who have done nothing to him but disagree.

If Lew can't take such criticism, if he can't debate a public position or defend a public statement on its merits, we at Lew Waters Watch suggest that another endeavor might be in order. To suggest that an invitation to justify his public statements amounts to cyberstalking is simply absurd. We at the Watch have no personal animosity towards Mr. Waters, and it would delight us to no end if he would stop making ill-informed public insinuations and slander under the guise of journalism which leave us no choice but to answer his commentary with the truth.

De-Escalate? Not in Lew's repertoire

Some of you gentle readers may have wondered what happened here on Lew Water's Watch over the weekend, when it went dark and silent and private.

When we last saw Lew's public offerings, he had pulled the offending post in which he criticized a conservative candidate for the state legislature, including the follow up comment in which he accused her of sleeping with her many supporters.  A comment which has apparently caused a number of people to publicly call for an apology, which is entirely appropriate.

Relax, Lew doesn't apologize.  When he says something stupid, he usually follows it up with something even more stupid to show you he really means it.

Anyway, we left Lew with the offending post removed, and assumed that cooler heads had prevailed upon him to pull the article and start acting like an adult.  Since we never wanted this conflict, we chose to meet his de-escalation with one of our own, and we set LWW to private.  Then we packed the car and headed to the coast with the mother-in-law.

Alas, Lew's return to sanity, even though lacking the public apology that is only appropriate, was short-lived.  We returned from the coast, the mother-in-law having sadly survived, to find that the egregious article including his highly offensive and sexist comments are back live.

So The Watch is back on, and I'm sure the tantrums from the Clark County Conservative over the rights of free citizens to publicly criticize his offensive nonsense will also resume.

I don't know if Lew thought that someone in power ordered The Watch to be shut down, and felt it was okay to repost his stupidity or what, but I assure you, Lew, no one has that power, and even if they did, no one knows who to contact to shut it down.

Multiple people on multiple forums have called for Lew Waters to publicly apologize for his offensive and sexist suggestion that a political candidate is sleeping with all her supporters. Please join your voice to call for this public buffoon to recant his statement. There are boundaries to what is acceptable discourse in politics, and Lew has far exceeded those bounds. Even a supporter of Lew should see that he has crossed the line, and should call for him to apologize.

Lew Crosses the Line of Acceptable Behavior.

Just when you think you've seen the depths of this man's psychosis and anger issues, he comes out and reveals that his problems are far worse than anyone imagined.



For the record (again), Lew Waters Watch is not endorsed by or affiliated with any candidate or group.  The sole purpose of this site is to offer a reality check and a counterpoint to a self-appointed bloviater who insists on being a divisive and disruptive force in local conservative politics.  Lew's paranoia informs him that this must be associated with the Lisa Ross campaign.  No, this is associated with Truth.  We here at LWW would be just as critical if the situation were reversed, if Lew was a supporter of Lisa Ross, and spoke badly about Carolyn Crain had she won.  It's not about candidates, you old fool, it's about so-called conservatives back-stabbing their fellow conservatives, and thereby handing a win to the left.

Lew insinuates that voters will leave Lisa because The Watch is critical of Lew's comments. Lew, in light of your earlier commentary about Lisa, this should thrill you to death, then!  But I think you vastly overestimate your meager and waning influence on politics in this area.  The present level of juvenile insanity you're exhibiting is just showing more people how toxic you really are. 

This last post just floored me.  Seriously, I didn't think even Lew Waters, Clark County Conservative, was stupid enough to insinuate that Lisa Ross sleeps around. Talk about a lack of class.  This sort of vile, ignorant, hateful, foul aspersion makes me just want to go take a shower, lest the stink cling to me.  Not content to fling dried up old shit in any direction, Lew pulls a fresh, steaming load right out of his ass and flings it with due intent at any target of opportunity that presents itself to assuage his bruised ego.

I fear this time Lew's hippopotamus mouth may have overloaded his hummingbird ass. Did Lew just sign his death warrant?

Now, we at Lew Waters watch do not advocate violence, but if anyone - like, say, Mr. Ross or Lisa Ross' father - would like to pay Lew a visit and explain very clearly to him in no uncertain terms what is and is not acceptable in the realm of public political discourse, Lew's home address is:

8803 NE 19th Ct.
Vancouver, WA 98665

Really, man, you have crossed the bounds of acceptability here, and sealed your position of irrelevancy in the public forum henceforth.  If you had a shred of decency you would issue a public and heartfelt apology to Lisa Ross for such a crass and indecent suggestion, and to Conservatives in general for being associated with anyone who would make such a disgusting accusation.

You should be ashamed.

No Fool like an Old Fool.

Nothing was stolen Lew.  You still have your property in your possession. You really need a lesson in semantics. You call yourself a "conservative" yet attack people for the sin of being more conservative than you.  That's worthy of a parody.  If you don't want to be the butt of a joke, then stop being so divisively absurd.

If anyone makes patently absurd statements in a public forum with the expectation of being taken seriously, they will be challenged.  By what logic do you claim immunity to having someone call bullshit on your absurdity?

LWW is not a Republican Party Operative.  But never let facts get in the way of a good old-fashioned paranoid rant, I always say.  That you're factually challenged when your opinions are questioned is obvious by your unwillingness to actually address the criticism, instead of the person doing the criticizing

And an old fool is still an old fool, as long as he insists on acting the part.

Lew Under Seige

Lew continues to bawl like a baby because someone disagrees with him on a forum he has no control over. . ..

Point by point:

LWW is not a "Clark County Republican Operative."  we are independent voters just like yourself, Lew, who happen to see that the Republican party - particularly the Grass roots conservative party of Clark county has a vision that closely aligns with our own.

We're not launching an all out assault on anyone. Sonny, you haven't seen an all out assault yet. You were called to task about one erroneous thing you said that helped no one but the liberal democrats. Act your age an grow a pair, ya big baby.

LWW has no affiliation to Lisa Ross, David Madore, or any other candidate. You need to pick your targets with more discernment, old man.  You make enough enemies by accident, quit doing it deliberately.

No one is questioning your right to dissent, Lew.  Nor is anyone trying to limit your freedom of speech.  You have the perfect right to say any sort of asinine thing you want - a right you seem dedicated to exercising.  But to listen to your plaintive bitching and whining, one would think you would like to limit MY right to point out when you make a patently idiotic statement.  Sorry, not gonna happen.  Free speech is a two-way street. 

No one has stolen anything, Lew.  There has been a parody of your facetious claim to be a conservative. The courts have ruled repeatedly that such is well within the fair use clause of the law. You are the one who made yourself a public figure. Quit being such a baby.

I certainly wouldn't support any party that lets itself be bullied around by an old fool with a soapbox. But LWW is not the Clark County Republican Party, so your final comment is pretty much irrelevant.

Keep bitching and grousing Lew.  LWW never sleeps, and we have just as much virtual ink as you do.  If you keep refusing to engage in any substantive way on the charges you've made, then your irrelevancy will be on display for the entire world to see.  You have the power to turn this off any time you choose to start acting your age and being responsible. 

Lew Continues to try to Find a Target

When we first started LWW, there was discussion of whether we should be up front with who we are or whether we should stay anonymous.   It was a difficult decision, but we went the way we did because Lew's prime weapon in his arsenal is to identify his critics, and then silence or marginalize them with heated ad hominem attacks.  Basically he uses his position as The Clark County Conservative to just bury his detractors in mud. So we made a tactical decision to not give him the target on which to use his favorite - and it turns out his only - weapon.

Not that Lew doesn't keep trying, God bless him. . .

Well, Lew since we obviously couldn't trust you to endorse or back Lisa in the first place, what exactly have we lost here?  Ummmmm. . . .nothing.  Need I remind you who it was who  disparagingly called Mrs. Ross, "an inexperienced novice?"  Once again, Lew demonstrates that he can dish it out, but can't take it.

You can trust ALL the candidates, Lew, because the cover on LWW is so deep, NONE of them have a clue. You're not the only Veteran in Clark County, old man, and some of us remember the basic lessons of OPSEC.

You also need to loosen the tinfoil hat.  No one is attacking you.  We here at LWW are merely heaping scorn and derision on patently silly statements and ideas.  If you are so closely associated with your silly statements and ideas that you can't discern the difference between an attack on your idea and an attack on your person, then you really should find another endeavor.  Public discourse doesn't seem to suit you.

Word of advice from an experienced troll to another:  quit fishing, and quit flailing trying to identify who your "attacker" is.  You won't do it, you can't do it, and all you will do is alienate everyone around you in your paranoia.  Man up and address the issues head on, and if you aren't able to do so then sit down and shut up.  It's really undignified watching you reacting to shadows.

You want some Cheese with that Whine?

Lew continues to grouse and gripe that someone made a parody of his blog headline.

No further commentary is necessary.

Hat-tip to Tread-not.org

Apparently I'm not the only one feeling a little dismayed at what a "Clark County Conservative" says about the Republican candidate for LD 49 seat 2.

http://www.tread-not.org/2014/08/local-politics/of-bullies-butt-kissers-and-boot-lickers/

Lew Waters goes to War!

Yesterday we took Lew to task about his divisive and disparaging words concerning the newly elected candidate for State Representative seat to district 49, Lisa Ross.  We briefly reviewed the history of the players in this drama, and analyzed why the results went the way they did.  Then we called to Lew to keep his mouth off fellow Republicans, and at least observe the basic manners his Mother apparently didn't teach him, that if you can't say anything nice, say nothing at all.

A little more history, for those who don't want to read through the chain of discourse on this blog:  Lew is a bully.  He has a potentially very valuable voice in exposing the insanity that passes for the Democratic platform, but he has a couple of prejudicial blind spots as well.  He has his mouthpiece, through his blog, and is used to pontificating in an echo chamber, unwilling to engage someone in a debate on ideas. He routinely steers the discussion on his blog by editing or outright deleting dissenting opinions, and instead of engaging arguments on their merit, he very quickly turns to ad hominem attacks to try to bolster his case.

The reaction we got from Lew most recently is more of the same. Since he was unable to address our analysis of why Lisa prevailed over Carolyn, we assume that our analysis is stipulated. No, Lew can't debate an idea on its merits, IT'S TIME TO GO TO WAR!





Well, this is news.  So now you're a full-blown enemy? What's changed, Lew? With statements like you made against the candidate going forward in November, with friends like you, who needs enemies?  Don't you know the Columbian is just lapping up your rhetoric: "Conservative columnist Lew Waters publicly states that Candidate Lisa Ross is unqualified!"


Lew continues to have problems with targeting friend or foe.  This blog is not endorsed by, approved by or supported in any way by the Republican Party of Clark County.  We at LWW are just private citizens like Lew who are tired of seeing him use his pulpit to promote lies and misinformation under the guise of amateur journalism, and we've chosen to be a counterpoint voice to balance his rants. 

I'm still waiting for Lew to explain why Carolyn was more qualified, and why a nonviable candidate beat her so handily.  Given Lew's track record and inability to debate instead pontificate, I suspect we shouldn't hold our breath.

"Nazi tactics?"  That makes me giggle.  So telling the truth, providing a reasoned discourse and *gasp* having the audacity to disagree with the Lew Waters in a public forum that he has no control over makes one a "Nazi?"  Get a grip, Lew.  If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.  If you start flinging mud, don't cry when you get spattered.  We stopped last time because it looked like you were about to have an aneurysm. It's in your power this time to stop it any time you want.  Just quit giving us softballs that we can so easily swat out of the park.

So Lew makes the conscious and public decision to be a divisive force to damage the Republican party

Oh, and by the way, Maria, you should know that the Columbian piece on the PCO election was feeding off of the irrelevant lies that Lew promoted in his blog.  The Columbian is perfectly willing to have a circle jerk with Lew if it suits their agenda to discredit the Republican party.  And Lew is having so much fun getting jerked off he lost sight of the fact that it was the printed mouthpiece of the Democrat party doing it.  If you promote yourself as "The Clark County Conservative" and the Columbian picks up your byline, you know you've screwed up somewhere.

So I pop over to Lew's blog to see how things are shaping up, and Lew actually posted my comment!  He deleted the link to this site, which I guess made him feel like he was sort of in control.  Here's the exchange:

I really don't care what you need, old man.  You pop off in the market place of ideas, don't get your panties in a wad because someone takes you to task for saying something stupid in public.  What's pissing you off is that you're being engaged in a forum where you don't control the microphone, and you can't handle it.

Your ego is over-riding your common sense, and getting in the way of accomplishing your goal.  Act like an adult instead of petulant child for a change.

Madore is in no way affiliated with LWW.  Never even met the man, and I guarantee you he's as clueless as you are about The Watch, and has as little influence.  Keep fishing.

Copyright doesn't extend to satire.  Dial back your rhetoric against your allies, and we'll be glad to go back to sleep and return to pretty pictures of airplanes.  Keep bad-mouthing other Republicans under the guise of "Clark County Conservative"  and we''ll keep exposing you for the irrelevant loony you seem so determined to become.

Here's what you can expect:  Every time you shoot your mouth off about the Republican party in public, demonstrating your extreme ignorance and trying to be a divisive force, we will be there, we will be watching, and we'll correct you and the record and we won't do it gently.  People will be watching, and it will be plain to see who's thinking and engaging and who's reacting and mindlessly flailing for relevancy.

We at the watch care little for your friendship, we've never really been a fan. If you want to continue to be an irresponsible ass with a blog, we'll counterpoint your nonsense in detail.  If you want to start acting like a responsible journalist and contact people like Kenny Smith, Jack McClary, Lisa Ross and Anson Service and see what you can do to promote conservatism in Clark County, instead of impede it, and don't give us any stupidity that we feel needs to be countered, then we'll happily find other pursuits.

There's an old Indian saying that within each of us lives two wolves.  One is hatred and fear and anger.  The other is love and confidence and serenity.  Which wolf will control you?  The one you feed.

It's (Back) On. Lew Has his Knickers in a Bunch

Well, Lew has been reasonably civil the last couple of months, concentrating his vitriol for the most part on the proper target, the Democrats.  He has been rather snarky to fellow Republicans and conservatives on his facebook postings, but since that's hardly a journalistic forum, and frequented for the most part by his sycophants, we at the Watch have pretty much let that slide.  Everyone has the right to be an idiot, we just provide counterpoint when you do it under the guise of responsible journalism.

Two months ago, this website unilaterally disarmed, feeling our mission had been accomplished to highlight the disruptive and destructive "news" that was being promulgated by the "Clark County Conservative" blog site. We took no pleasure in chastising and correcting an old man in the one thing that fills his days with meaning, but the level of inappropriate vitriol coming from his pages was being picked up by the local Democratic News Network (a.k.a. The Columbian) and being promoted as real news/journalism when it was nothing of the sort.  It was destructive and counterproductive to the very goals that Lew himself sought. 

We felt that we had succeeded, because after the welts healed, Lew seemed to be publicly more responsible in his demeanor, and that was all we could hope to ask for.  Unfortunately, it appears that the lesson didn't stick.

In Lew's latest missive, he starts out with a very well written and highly appropriate chastisement of the electorate and the low voter turnout on Tuesday.  All of his points in the first 12 paragraphs were spot on and appropriate, and we applauded his sentiment. Then Lew went off the reservation with this one:

"And we see it when a strong Republican candidate is undermined behind the scenes by party operatives in favor of an inexperienced novice because someone carries a personal grudge against the stronger candidate. Waving pom poms to a High School cheer isn’t what is needed to stand up and defeat special interests."

A little background here.  Carolyn Crain and Lew Waters have been solid supporters of each other for the better part of a year, at least.  In 2012, the local Republican party with Establishmentarian Ryan Hart at the helm, gave Carolyn a perfunctory $500 from the party coffers - half of what they supported Liz Pike with.  Short of the max, it's unknown whether this was because they lacked funds or just didn't believe in Carolyn's candidacy.

When the Clark County Republican party reorganized under new, grass roots conservative management in 2012, Carolyn lost in her bid to sit on the party executive committee. She took this personally, and the word is that in the social gathering afterwards, she and her cadre sat away from the general group and loudly and rather obnoxiously disclaimed the lack of political aptitude displayed by the majority of PCO's for rejecting the bid of such an obviously qualified person as herself to sit on the committee.  It wasn't very graceful, or very pretty.  Since then, Carolyn has perceived a rift between her and the party leadership which has interfered with her ability to use her prodigious political acumen to the benefit of the party (I'm not being sarcastic here.  Carolyn Crain's knowledge of the political landscape can best be described as encyclopedic).  This inability to gracefully accept a defeat and continue working with fellow Republicans has soured the good will of many Precinct officers towards Carolyn. 

Lew, being the outsider, has a visceral hatred for Ron Paul, and incorrectly identified the realignment of the Clark County Republican Party as a nefarious plot by Ron Paul supporters to undermine the very fabric of American society. The fact that Ron Paul supporters are the minority caucus of the new party, and that none of Ron Paul's more loony ideas have anything to do with local government haven't influenced Lew's incoherent condemnation of the Clark County Conservative movement at all.  We at The Watch find it ironic that a blog entitled "Clark County Conservative" condemns fellow conservatives because they're too conservative.

So Lew and Carolyn became natural allies going into the 2014 election season. Carolyn's bid to challenge incumbent Jim Moeller in November was complicated by the entry of Lisa Ross into the race.  Carolyn and Lew were apparently confident that this wouldn't be a problem, until Tuesday night when Lisa Beat Carolyn handily by more than 8.5 percentage points.

Lew lacks the analytic skill to understand why this happened, so he incorrectly (as usual) came up with a conspiracy theory and blamed "the party" for "undermining" Carolyn.  Now, I'm looking at the public funding disclosures for the candidates, and I don't see a single financial donation from the Republican Party for Lisa Ross.

Carolyn's hubris was such that she scheduled a victory party for August 7.  Lew went, and his public comment was:



Come on, old man, how much class would it have shown to show up and rub Carolyn's face in her defeat?  You really need a social reality check.  Did it ever occur to you that there might be another victory party going on - a real one?  Had anyone of the group you condemn been there, no doubt you would have responded, "The new R3publican's showed up to rub her nose in her defeat.  No class."  So there really is no winning with you, is there?  Do you think people are really that stupid, that they can't see your nonsense? Please try to stay relevant in your dotage, Lew.

The challenge I pose to Lew and Carolyn Crain is to suck it up and have the grace to congratulate the victor and promise your support to help them win in November.  The kind of petty, childish bickering and panty wringing Lew is engaging in right now is why Conservatives regularly lose to liberals, who at least know how to get along with each other, no matter how out of touch with reality they are.

Carolyn Crain set a personal goal to knock on every door in the Legislative District in her candidacy.  Lisa Ross certainly didn't.  How did that "undermining" take place, Lew?  It sure is easy to cast insinuations and accusation. Now, old man, present your evidence or  shut the hell up and retract your slander.  What "undermining" took place?  Was anything done that was unethical or illegal? Are you saying that the precinct officers were supposed to support Carolyn, even after she so roundly condemned them for not giving her a seat on the committee?  People have the freedom to choose and support the candidates they want, Lew.  The Clark County Republican Party isn't the establishment any more, and we don't promote candidates because it's "their turn."

I'll tell you what happened, Lew, based on what I've heard just talking to people, and what has been reported to me by PCO's who have been canvassing their precincts.  People who knew neither Lisa or Carolyn voted overwhelmingly for Lisa.  She just pencils out better on paper with her education and experience.  Those who knew Carolyn broke 50-50.  One PCO reported that one voter said, "I know Carolyn, and she's crazy!"  Carolyn is brash and outspoken, lacks grace and comes across as a bull in a china shop. 

Please stop with the "more qualified candidate" bullstuff, Lew.  Carolyn has just as much legislative experience as does Lisa Ross - Zero. Lisa was elected three times in 2012, to our County convention, to the State Convention, and was one of our 3 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, where she caucused for Rick Santorum.  I don't recall Carolyn being involved with any of these. On that basis alone, I would say Carolyn is the novice, not Lisa. It's unnecessary to label Lisa as an nonviable or marginal candidate just because you backed the loser.  Lisa's viability was determined by the only measure that counts on August 5th.  Get over it. You can take your marbles and go home to pout and be seen as a pissy old establishment has-been, or you can act like an adult and get behind the Conservative on the ticket and try to help us win in November.  Your choice.