Monthly Archives: October 2009

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Dede And The RINOs

So Dede the RINO is gone. Good riddance.

Once again to the GOP establishment elite: Can you hear us now?

Already, the whimpering of the so-called “big tent” crowd is being heard, namely that these mean ol’ conservatives drove out just the type of candidate Republicans need, namely a “pragmatic, principled” woman.

Not so fast. These very same voices are the ones who constantly bash the likes of Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. Those are not men in drag. Those are real women. Women of intellect and principle. Conservative principle.

Says Dump Dede’s Dana Loesch:

I see some liberals and certain moderates and their Razzie-esque support of Scozzafava as some sort of women’s rights leader, Tweets such as “the GOP and big tent need more of her.” These were the same people who dumped all over Sarah Palin, the same people who dump on Michelle Bachmann, so no, “women’s rights” isn’t something that you can cherry pick and decide to support based upon whether or not you like the woman in question. Liberals don’t have a patent on women’s rights. No one does. To that extent, those saying that Scozzafava is a woman and should be supported because there is a lack of estrogen in the GOP, well, again, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann anyone? Why are they unworthy of support – they’re women. Supporting a woman simply because she’s a woman – and allowing her sex to overshadow her credentials or lack thereof – is sexist in and of itself because it says that women aren’t capable of meeting a higher bar of expectations. I believe that women can meet those expectations which is why I like my candidates conservative and if they also happen to be women, even better.

To some extent, these lefties and linguini spined moderates have bought the argument that to be a credible female candidate, you pretty much have to sing out of the NOW Gang’s hymnal. You know, pro-abortion, for starters. Liberal on most other key issues, especially social issues. If not, well, then you’re just selling out your gender.

Kinda like the way they treat black conservatives as Uncle Toms who are selling out their race. To be a credible black candidate, you have to live on the plantation run by The Reverend Jackson, The Reverend Al Sharpton and the rest of the race baiters and race hustlers.

The next thing is for the conservatives to take back control of the Republican Party … with a purge.

No, not a purge of everyone who disagrees on every issue. But rather a purge of those who wish to lead the party to defeat and permanent minority status by selling out its core beliefs and principles.

Telling the progressives and leftists to go find their real home in the Democrat Party instead of trying to turn the Republicans into me-too Democrats. While recognizing the fact that a conservative cannot win in every district and understanding the need to recruit candidates who are capable of winning in districts that are less conservative than others, that does not justify abandoning the core conservative principles put forth by Ronald Reagan in the name of “bipartisanship.” Or more accurately, going along to get along. The typical Washington crap sandwich.

We do not need a third party. The Democrats and their allies in the state-run media are going to push the third party angle, knowing it will benefit the Democrats.

From Erick Erickson at Red State:

Pete Sessions and the House GOP Leadership — not to mention Michael Steele and the RNC — have failed to gauge the mood of the nation and the conservative base accurately and this will have far reaching implications for the party.

I intend to work within the GOP. Already Democrats are salivating at the thought of a third party conservative movement and are intent on fostering it to hurt the GOP. I will not cooperate with a third party movement. As I have said repeatedly, Doug Hoffman is the exception that proves the rule. America is a two party nation and instead of packing up and fleeing the GOP, we should launch a coup and take it back. Consider NY-23 the first salvo in that coup, with the Florida Senate race right behind it.

Make no mistake about it, Pete Sessions and the NRCC must shoulder most of the blame and responsibility, with Michael Steele and the RNC coming right behind them. They did not listen. They would not listen. They posited themselves as the smartest people in the room.

And we’ve cleaned their clocks.

Now? We should be magnanimous in victory — and whether Hoffman wins or loses, as long as Dede Scozzafava loses it is a victory — but we should demand accountability, we should demand a reckoning, and we should demand a purge from the party establishment of those people most responsible for the Republican disaster in NY-23.

I hope John Cornyn and the NRSC are paying attention.

Looks like it’s on.

Taking on one RINO at a time.

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Scozzafava Quits In NY23

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Breaking news via The Other McCain:

The RINO candidate in New York’s 23rd congressional district, Dede Scozzafava, has dropped out of the race and thrown her support to conservative Doug Hoffman.

From the Watertown Daily Times:

“Today, I again seek to act for the good of our community,” Ms. Scozzafava wrote in a letter to friends and supporters. “It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so. I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my party will emerge stronger and our district and our nation can take an important step towards restoring the enduring strength and economic prosperity that has defined us for generations.”

The newspaper also reports that the final straw came from polling data showing Scozzafava trailing both Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens badly and lacking sufficient money to make any sort of late push.

That’s following the National Republican Congressional Committee, the folks who tried to shove this crap sandwich down the throats of the voters in the district, gave up in the form of pulling all advertising on her behalf and withdrawing campaign staff support.

From Erick Erickson at Red State via Dump Dede:

The NRCC tells me directly that they are only spending money on anti-Owens ads. The anti-Hoffman YouTube? Gone. The anti-Hoffman press releases? Gone. The anti-Hoffman everything else? Gone.

The pro-Dede Scozzafava stuff? Gone too.

The RNC ground crews? They are pulling out to New Jersey.

The Dede Scozzafava campaign says this is all false. Then again, they say she is a Republican too.

More from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air and Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters.

Michelle Malkin asks:

Hey, GOP elites: Can you hear conservatives NOW?!

This is also a huge victory for the new media, the clout of which still may be lost on the Old Guard of the GOP. It was the new media — bloggers and talk radio — that unmasked the RINO for what she was, helped propel Doug Hoffman into the lead in the polls by giving him a forum and helping him raise money, and put pressure on Scozzafava to withdraw.

The Tea Party folks have taken out another RINO in the effort to take the Republican Party back from those who have subverted it from its conservative roots and the legacy of Ronald Reagan.

We dedicate this song to them:

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More Phony Jobs Numbers

The White House keeps lying about the impact of porkulus.

Yesterday. even al-Associated Press caught them fudging numbers.

Today, we have Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama claiming porkulus saved or created 650,000 jobs, according to a report from Jake Tapper at ABC News’s Political Punch.

Watch this for the details of what was reall accomplished and from where that information came:

The numbers come from Congressionally-mandated reports submitted earlier this month by tens of thousands of state and local governments, private companies, colleges, universities, and community organizations nationwide, administration officials said, with the majority of the funds coming from state governments.

State and local governments. Colleges and universities. Community organizations (think ACORN).

In other words, phony jobs, particularly in the area of state and local governments, which used block grant money to avoid getting rid of bureaucrats. And for those who will argue that porkulus money preventing communities from laying off fire fighters and police officers, think again. If any porkulus money was used in those departments, it was to get rid of bureaucrats, not frontline personnel.

Ed Morrissey weighs in at Hot Air:

The “majority of funds” came from state governments because Porkulus distributed the money in block grants to the states.  What did the states do with that money?  They did save jobs, but primarily bureaucratic jobs.  States used the money to temporarily paper over budget gaps which would have forced the layoffs of state employees, which should have been a necessary step in slimming down state-level spending.

The administration will claim that it saved the jobs of teachers, police officers, and firefighters with the data submitted by the states.  Indeed, we have already seen this in New Hampshire, which listed almost all of its “saved or created” jobs from their education system …

No one was going to have a mass layoff of police officers and teachers in New Hampshire or anywhere else.  The jobs really at risk were administrative jobs within state government, primarily union jobs (in large part represented by Obama’s ally, the SEIU), as states had to confront an economic reality of lower revenue and rising spending.   Porkulus provided a one-time method of ignoring that reality for a few months by burdening the entire nation with the bad policy decisions of the individual states.

Once the porkulus money runs out, those state and local governments and education systems will still be in the same mess as before resulting from bad decisions. It just kicked the can down the road. But that is the way government makes decisions on a regular basis.

By the way, figuring the eventual price tag with the interest of porkulus will be $1.2 trillion, that’s about $1,846,153 per job “saved.” And not even real jobs. Government jobs.

Great job, guys. To quote Gene Kranz as played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13: “Tell me this isn’t a government operation.”

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A Pet’s Ten Commandments

From The Dog Files, but applicable to all pets:

  1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years… Any separation from you is likely to be painful.
  2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.
  3. Place your trust in me. It is crucial for my well-being.
  4. Don’t be angry with me for long and don’t lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your friends, your entertainment, but I have only you.
  5. Talk to me. Even if I don’t understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me.
  6. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it.
  7. Before you hit me, before you strike me, remember that I could hurt you, and yet, I choose not to bite you.
  8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I’m not getting the right food, I have been in the sun too long, or my heart might be getting old or weak.
  9. Please take care of me when I grow old – remember, you too, will grow old.
  10. On the ultimate difficult journey, go with me, please Never say you can’t bear to watch. Don’t make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there, because I love you so.

 

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Hoffman Picks Up a Big Endorsement

Via Erick Erickson at Red State:

Former New York Gov. George Pataki has endorsed conservative Doug Hoffman in the 23rd congressional race in New York over the RINO chosen by the National Republican Congressional Committee in Washington.

Here’s Pataki’s statement:

As someone personally engaged in the way of life in the Adirondacks and Northern New York, I’m deeply concerned about the course of our nation and the outcome of the election in the 23rd Congressional District.

Simply put, we cannot afford to give another vote to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid we cannot afford another vote for higher taxes, we cannot afford another vote for government run health care and we absolutely cannot afford another vote to take away from hard working men and women the right to secret ballot.

That is why tonight, I’m proud to endorse Doug Hoffman, a Republican, running on the Conservative line for Congress in the 23rd Congressional District.

Doug Hoffman will stand up to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. He will fight for all the residents of northern New York. He will fight for our proud servicemen and women at Fort Drum, our dairy farmers in Lowville and our manufacturers in Plattsburgh.

As a businessman, and as a life-long resident of the North Country Doug Hoffman understands the need to lower taxes on working families, the need to stand tall against terror and he won’t back phony stimulus programs that fail to create the jobs we need and leaves a mountain of debt to our children.

When elected to Congress Doug will work to reduce our taxes, he will stand tall against those who despise our freedoms and he will be a vigilant stalwart against those who would substitute government programs for individual initiative.

And Doug Hoffman can win.

I urge all the voters of the 23rd Congressional District – Republican Democrat, Independent and Conservative to come out and vote for Doug Hoffman for Congress.

Pataki is extremely popular in upstate New York even after having been out of office for several years. His backing of the candidate who should have been the Republican nominee is huge at this point and is critical for Hoffman, who is surging in the polls and in fundraising and is picking up backing of Republicans from all over the country.

Go here to make a donation to the only conservative in the NY-23 race, Doug Hoffman.

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Vote Fraud On The Horizon In N.J.

Apparently New Jersey’s election crooks aren’t sophisticated enough to steal an election on their own. They need help from the Obama Chicago machine to make it more efficient.

Jim Geraghty from NRO’s The Campaign Spot has the signs that plans are already afoot for the Democrats to build a slush fund of votes in case Chris Christie has a narrow lead over Gov. Jon Corzine on Election Night next Tuesday.

Seems that on all of the absentee ballot requests received for the election, some 2,300 don’t have matching signatures. In … other … words .. they weren’t submitted by the actual voter but by someone else in his or her name. Think ACORN — the Association of Corrupted Organizations Registering Non-voters — or something along those lines.

A Obama hack from the New Jersey Democrat Party has written the secretary of state demanding that all of those whose signatures on the request forms didn’t match the voter signature on file receive — steady now — provisional ballots.

That would create a slush fund of up to 2,300 votes for Corzine in case it’s needed. Because you know exactly what will happen should Christie score a narrow win next Tuesday.

Lawsuit, then recount after recount after recount until somehow enough Corzine ballots are found in car trunks, closets, garages, etc. Then to run up the score, a series of friendly judges will be found to allow the provisional ballots to count and no doubt be counted more than once.

Says Geraghty:

Democrats have never made this request before, not even in 2008, where many more New Jersey residents were voting through absentee ballots. Of course, that year Democrats Barack Obama and Frank Lautenberg were expected to win the statewide races handily.

Last year, the state party had no objections to the actions of county clerks; now, the party’s counsel fears that the county-clerk staff “may be overworked and are likely not trained in handwriting analysis.” Strangely, these same county-clerk staffers managed to handle this year’s primary elections in New Jersey without any major complaints.

The fears of absentee-ballot fraud in New Jersey is not theoretical or far-fetched. Earlier this year, Atlantic City councilman Marty Small and 13 people who worked on his unsuccessful mayoral campaign “were indicted on charges they conspired to commit election fraud during the June Democratic primary through a variety of schemes involving messenger absentee ballots, state Attorney General Anne Milgram announced in Trenton.” One of those workers has already pled guilty. Five workers were indicted on similar charges in Essex County in August.

Suspicious minds see the letter as an attempt to create a pool of emergency votes to be used if Christie holds a small lead on Election Night. The Secretary of State has not yet responded to the Democrats’ request.

Dan Riehl questions the timing of the request of the Obama hack lawyer.

Power Line’s John Hindraker has seen it all before, way too recently (think Sen. al-Franken) and says:

It’s a sad reality of our contemporary politics: If an election is close enough, the Democratic Party will steal it.

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GOP Crony Corruption in NY, FL

The corrupt old RINO Guard of the Republican Party has been unmasked in both New York and Florida.

First, Florida, where Gov. Charlie Crist and pals have been caught red-handed doing a hit job … on themselves and trying to blame another Republican.

Some background: soft, squishy illegal alien supporter Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) resigned from his position and the seat is now held by Crist appointee George LeMieux, who is not seeking election to his own term.

Conservative Marco Rubio, speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, announced he will run for the seat occupied by LeMieux. Then, Crist, also a soft, squishy RINO type who openly embraced Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama and welcomed the influx of porkulus dollars, wants the job. The conservative base, clearly unhappy with Crist, rallied around Rubio, a member of the Hispanic constituency to which the Republicans hope to appeal, after the chairman of the Florida GOP uses a parliamentary move to keep Rubio off the ballot even though he announced first.

Crist’s lead over Rubio went from 40 points to 14 as the conservative connected with the GOP base, particularly upset over Crist’s hug of Obama. That, and the involvement of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, once again sticking its finger in the eye of the conservative base of the GOP.

Now, the popular Hitler video clip shows up aimed at Crist over the weekend.

Three days later, an anti-Rubio website pops up, called The Truth About Rubio. Its ties to the Crist campaign are obvious, but thanks to Erick Erickson of Red State, we know a lot more about this website than its proprietors would have liked us to know.

He calls it a fake website. Why? Because there are time-stamped posts dating back to 2007.

And, it tries to connect Rubio to the Hitler parody video, complete with a poll.

From Red State:

Funny how the Crist Hitler video appeared on October 24th and the Anti-Rubio site came out three days later and just happens to have as its big story the Hitler video, complete with polling.

Hmmmm . . . .

Is Crist so desperate that he puts out an exceedingly lame video and then tries to blame Rubio for it?

Why am I guessing this is Charlie Crist hit job? Well, first the Democrats have no need to attack Rubio now.

Secondly, the anti-Rubio website has a Twitter Account. And who was following the site until twenty minutes ago? Michelle Todd. Who is Michelle Todd? Special Assistant to Governor Charlie Crist.

Also, Erickson posts uncovered evidence from the source code of the anti-Rubio website that the Crist campaign is involved.

The website was registered one day ago on October 27, 2009, but it purported to have content all the way back to 2007.

RedState probed the source code of the website and found this:

img src=”///Users/rheffley/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png” alt=”” /

Who is rheffley? How about Rich Heffley.

Mr. Heffley played a key role in getting Charlie Crist elected Governor in 2006. More importantly, Mr. Heffley is now Charlie Crist’s top advisor in his Florida Senate race. Mr. Heffley’s business address is 420 E Jefferson St, Tallahassee, FL, which is the address of the Florida Republican Party. Mr. Heffley rents office space from the Florida GOP and the Florida GOP pays him $10,000.00 a month. His business partners are Jim Rhimes and Randy Enwright. If Enwright’s name sounds familiar, it should. He’s been heavily involved in the GOP and is the Republican National Committee’s field consultant.

There are some major problems for the Crist campaign, one of which is the fact that it fails to contain the required federal campaign disclaimer about who authorized and paid for the site.

Plus, Crist has denied knowledge of the website, but as Erickson points out, Crist “knew enough to know that the one day old website contained press clippings ‘all in the public domain.’”

A side note, he also mentions that several of the articles on the anti-Rubio website may have copyright violations in addition to campaign finance and coordination violations. Red State’s Moe Lane has more on the potential copyright problems here.

More updates on the website can be found here.

Plus, Erickson now speculates whether Crist and Hefley created or at least played a hand in creating the Crist Hitler parody video.

This smacks of desparation. A candidate who’s given up all pretense of being a conservative planning and carrying out a political hit job on himself and trying to lay the blame on his opponent.

Remember: the video first appeared on YouTube on October 24, the website went live on October 27 and prominently featured the video, complete with a poll slanted against Rubio for website visitors to take.

After Red State pointed out Hefley’s connection to the website, the website went down and Hefley’s name was scrubbed from the source code. Then, as Erickson points out:

[W]hen the website came back online, every reference to the Hitler video had vanished. The poll was gone too, replaced by one about having two government jobs.

Except that Heffley failed to also delete his twitter post trying to tie Marco to the HItler video. You can see a screenshot here in case this too gets deleted.

If you follow the link in the tweet, you arrived at a page that says “Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”

Why would the allegedly anonymous website designed to attack Marco Rubio scrub both Rich Heffley’s name from the website and delete all references to the Hitler video and its possible ties to Rubio unless Heffley and the Crist campaign were connected to both?

Good question. I imagine the answer would be a kneeslapper, should we ever get one.

Crist is in trouble. Money and endorsements are pouring into Florida for the real conservative in the race, Marco Rubio. If this cheap, sleazy attack stays in the news, and hopefully it will, the governor’s political career will be over.

Now, onto New York’s 23rd congressional district, where Dan Riehl has an exclusive on just how Republican voters in the district had the crap sandwich name Dede Scozzafava shoved down their throats. It was the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, with a little assist from local GOP progressives.

The details of this sordid little story are almost too much to fathom on how the NRCC is so out of touch with the voters of a district the Republicans have held since Reconstruction.

It’s also symbolic of how out of touch the GOP leadership is with the base of its own party. A significant part of that gulf comes from being inside Washington. The culture is so much different from regular ol’ America it’s almost hard to understand. These people go to Washington, some with the best of intentions, others with hidden political ambitions and get surrounded by Washington insiders, who are as different from regular Americans as night is from day. They just don’t deal with any real people and when their constituents approach them, it’s easy to dismiss constituent concerns out of hand and instead pander to the Inside Washington crowd.

This episode also shows that the NRCC and other Republican insiders do not understand the power of the New Media. Riehl notes:

Welcome to the need for new thinking and a need to embrace the openness driven by a new media age, GOP – you can become a part of it, or continue to be its victim for as long as you want. We’ll wait. But I can’t guarantee for how long. Patience among the grassroots seems to be running out and they are speaking up, too loudly for you to ever shut down, as they have a vehicle to do it you’ve, unfortunately, not yet effectively learned to use at its best.

Without the blogosphere and the Internet, the GOP elite probably would have gotten away with their shenanigans in both Florida and New York. The state-run media would never have exposed them, because they like the idea of RINOs vs Democrats on the ballot. RINOs are essentially me-too Democrats, happy to be in the minority so that programs that they secretly support can get enacted while they cry crocodile tears over their passage.

It’s all an act, worthy of an Oscar.

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Desecrating The Flag

Actions often speak louder than words.

The Democrat National Committee is using a video showing the desecration of the American flag to raise money.

And it’s on Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama’s official website as well. And his political hacks at Organizing For America are also involved in the project.

A Democratic fundraising video on President Obama’s political Web site shows an American flag mural being covered in graffiti and desecrated with slogans about health care reform.

As a heart monitor beeps ominously in the background, a graffiti artist paints over the Stars and Stripes with phrases criticizing opposition to the Democratic legislation, including “profit over life” and the crossed-out words “death panels.” The whole flag is eventually smeared with paint and blacked out.

One word: disgusting.

Time to show these folks the door over the next two election cycles.