This is what’s called an October Surprise.
One of the crooked cronies of New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was convicted of two counts of mail fraud and another count of conspiracy to commit fraud.
Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot tells us just how much money Joe Ferriero has given to Corzine over the years: almost half a million dollars.
Tony Soprano would be a more honest, ethical governor than Jon Corzine.
She shouldn’t need a horse’s head in her bed to get the message.
Dede Scozzafova should do the honorable thing and withdraw from the special election in New York’s 23 congressional district. She’s an embarrassment beyond the level of Alan Keyes in the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois. And we all know Who that gave us. Keyes at least was a conservative, although not a credible candidate. Scozzafova is neither.
Her positions on key issues are right alongside of Bela Pelosi. She supports homosexual marriage. She was the recipient of an award named for Margaret Sanger, a supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis’ desire for a master race through eugenics and the elimination of blacks and Jews, people she felt were inferior. She’s been backed by the Kos Kiddie Day Care Center, although even Markos Moulitsas even called her out on her deceitful tactics. She’s been caught lying about a reporter, attempting to smear and destroy his reputation by filing a false police report. Her press conference in front of one of Doug Hoffman’s campaign offices was a laughingstock.
The bigger atrocity here is just how this RINO – Republican In Name Only – even got to where she is. Handpicked not by the voters but by insider liberal party hacks and forced on the voters with the assent of the clueless, out-of-touch bunch in Washington, she would never have survived an open primary with real voters. The Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, continuing to show that neither one could find its collective rear end with both hands, poured money into her campaign … and ran ads attacking the only conservative in the race, Doug Hoffman.
What part of “stuck on stupid” don’t they get?
Scozzafova could and should make it easy on the RNC and NRCC to save face and withdraw from the race and throw her support to Hoffman. Hoffman’s come out of nowhere and is surging at just the right time. The RINO, meanwhile, is running a distant third by all confirmed reports. The voters are laying the smackdown to the blueblood, country-club elites that think the GOP lost badly in 2006 and 2008 because their candidates were too conservative.
Do the right thing. Get out. Now.
No, not a Verizon commercial.
The conservative base of the Republican Party shouting to the out-of-touch Beltway Elites running the party are shouting just that.
Michelle Malkin has the tales of two of her readers that just “No!” to the parade of RINOs being pushed by extreme leftists, some of whom are even calling themselves progressives, running as Republicans in GOP districts and helping sell out the GOP base. One of Malkin’s readers sent Newt Gingrich’s book back to him. This picture is truly worth a thousand words:
Can you hear us now in Washington? Not just no … HELL NO! to RINOs!
As we wrote here, if the GOP does not find its way back to its conservative roots of small government, lower taxes, social values and strong national defense:
[it] will go the way of its predecessor, the Whigs. Indistinguishable from the pro-slavery Democrats in the period leading up to the Civil War, refusing to take positions that were definable, the Whigs simply disappeared into history.
Human Events has a list of arguably the worst 10 winners of the Nobel Peace Appeasement Prize winners. Ever.
Every name on here is an anti-American turd merchant, a terrorist or a terrorist enabler. Or, in Woodrow Wilson’s case, just a unrealistic dreamer.
Yes, Our Lord and Savior is on the list. At No. 6, which means there are five worse than Him.
Sarah Palin has weighed in regarding the special election in the 23rd congressional district in New York.
She’s backing conservative Doug Hoffman over the uber-liberal anointed by the RINOs in Washington.
John McCormack, who along with Robert Stacy McCain, has provided the best coverage of the race and had the cops called on his by the RINO Dede Scozzafova, has the statement from the former Alaska governor.
Doug Hoffman is committed to ending the reckless spending in Washington, D.C. and the massive increase in the size and scope of the federal government. He is also fully committed to supporting our men and women in uniform as they seek to honorably complete their missions overseas.
And best of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine.
Doug Hoffman stands for the principles that all Republicans should share: smaller government, lower taxes, strong national defense, and a commitment to individual liberty.
Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of “blurring the lines” between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections. Unfortunately, the Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate that more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race. This is why Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party’s ticket.
Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual.
Hoffman also got backing from former House GOP leader Dick Armey. Hoffman also came out in support of the flat tax, a favorite of Armey’s. Both the flat tax and the Fair Tax, supported by Neal Boortz among others, deserve a fair, open and honest debate, because both of them are better than the current punitive tax system.
“Even though I’m a CPA, the flat tax is the way to create an environment for economic growth,” said Hoffman, noting that simplifying the tax code would result in a substantial loss of tax-preparation business for his firm.
Armey said that Scozzafava lost the election “the day she was elected,” since her record and policy stances place her far outside the mainstream of the conservative 23rd District. Armey expressed the hope that “the Republicans will learn a lesson” from the defeat of Scozzafava.
Also, via Dump Dede, the National Tea Party coalition is calling for the GOP to withdraw its support from Scozzafova.
And finally, here is proof that somewhere a Village is missing its Idiot. Anyone who thinks the Republican Party needs to nominate a liberal backed by the Kos Kiddie Day Care Center in a district that the Republicans have held since 1871 is, well, an idiot.
Via Erika Christensen on Twitter:
No, not Coca-Cola. A beverage with the name “Cocaine.”
Erika says:
What the eff?
Or, as we’re fond of saying here:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
From Amanda Carpenter on Twitter:
Never, never, never try to hold a press conference outside of your opponent’s campaign headquarters:
Here’s some video from the event. Watch all the Hoffman signs.
Little-known fact: There are lots of campaign workers, and signs, in such offices, ready to be deployed.
Dede Scozzafova: Epic FAIL.
Orrin Hatch has jumped the shark.
The veteran Republican Senator from Utah, the same tool who wanted to appoint Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy’s widow to his Senate seat, now wants Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama to investigate the Bowl Championship Series.
WASHINGTON (al-AP) – Sen. Orrin Hatch is asking President Barack Obama to launch a Justice Department investigation into college football’s Bowl Championship Series over antitrust laws.
Hatch tells the president in a letter Wednesday that a “strong case” can be made that the BCS violates antitrust laws. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter.
Under the BCS system, some conferences get automatic bids to participate in top-tier bowls while others don’t, and the automatic bid conferences also get far more of the revenue. Hatch represents Utah, and he says the current system unfairly discriminates against some conferences. The BCS has said it simply recognizes the teams people want to watch. Neither the White House nor the Justice Department has an immediate comment.
Think of it as a call for The Messiah to nationalize college football. Why not? He’s already nationalized the auto industry, the banks, Wall Street, the National Football League, is about to nationalize health care … why stop there? Once He puts Fox News, the blogs and talk radio out of business, He can really be who He wants to be.
Obama is following his script to perfection. The only thing stopping Him are the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Amazing.
Wal-Mart loss prevention employee runs down a shoplifter who slashed at him with a knife and gets fired for his efforts.
Josh Rutner said he was just doing his job as a Wal-Mart “asset protection officer” earlier this month when he chased a knife-wielding theft suspect across the store parking lot.
The man, later identified as Marc Ash, was arrested by Ocala police and the merchandise was recovered.
The next day, Wal-Mart fired Rutner.
Rutner said it boiled down to doing what was right or following policy. For him, it was an easy choice.
“I couldn’t let him get away,” Rutner said. “That’s wrong.”
But Michelle Bradford, a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman, said the store’s no-chase policy is clear.
“We take the safety and security of our customers and associates very seriously,” she said. “There are specific instructions as to what an associate can and can’t do during a shoplifting episode.”
In other words, more “rules are rules” stupidity. The Death of Common Sense on display.
Just like the idiot mayor in Wellford, S.C., that banned police from pursuing escaping criminals on foot and in vehicles.
Stuck. On. Stupid.
Take Rules For Radicals No. 12 and apply it to every single opponent: the mantra of Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama.
The basic tenet of Rule No. 12 is:
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Donald Sensing says there’s more to Rule No. 12 that what is widely quoted and explains just how the planned attack by the White House on Fox News Channel is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.
Here’s how he breaks it down. First, regarding Pick the target:
Do not make the mistake of thinking that Fox News Channel is the actual target. The bullseye target of this campaign is all the public media.
Then, freeze it:
… to fix a certain perception about the target in the minds of the broader community, in this case the media figures in general and the minds of the community (in this case, the whole nation is the community) as a whole.
In other words, fix this image of FNC in the eyes of the American public as part of the right-wing noise machine and Republican operation and part of what is undermining America.
The first shot was fired by Anita Dunn, the self-admitted fan of Chairman Mao, when she said the following to al-CNN:
The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological… what I think is fair to say about Fox, and the way we view it, is that it is more of a wing of the Republican Party. …
But let’s not pretend they’re a news organization like CNN is.
The effort to separate FNC from what the public perceives as legitimate news organizations commences. A side note … a news organization like CNN, which “fact checked” a comedy skit on Saturday Night Live but couldn’t bother to fact check bogus racist statements falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh.
Third, personalize it:
Attacking FNC puts a face, a personal identity on the White House’s enemy, but also serves to obscure the larger identity of the enemy. FNC is separated from the rest of the “real” media and personalized as a partisan, ideological arm of the president’s political opposition. The White House wants the other media to think that its fight is with FoxNews exclusively, hoping they won’t see that the real fight is with all media.
It also puts FNC in the same category in the public perception as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and other radio talk show hosts generally critical of the administration, as well as bloggers. They become the face of the opposition to Obama.
Finally, polarize it:
The White House is laying a foundation of future media relations that does two things. First, they are identifying, and most importantly trying to get all the media to identify, good and bad media coverage, both terms defined by the White House. Second, they are nudging each reporter and news organization to move further toward the “good” side by trying to drive a wedge between them and Fox News.
Sensing then directs us to this trip down Memory Lane from the 2008, namely how the Obama campaign was able to control all media coverage:
The Obama campaign’s press strategy leading up to his election last November focused on “making” the media cover what the campaign wanted and on exercising absolute “control” over coverage, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told an overseas crowd early this year.
In a video of the event, Dunn is seen describing in detail the media strategy used by then-Sen. Barack Obama’s highly disciplined presidential campaign. The video is footage from a Jan. 12 forum hosted by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development in the Dominican Republic.
“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,” Dunn said, admitting that the strategy “did not always make us popular in the press.”
That would be the very same Anita Dunn who labeled FNC a “wing of the Republican Party.”
Observes Sensing:
The question is whether the rest of the reporters and news-outlet managers understand that they are next to “picked, frozen, personalized and polarized” unless they submit to the White House’s whims.
One reporter who didn’t get the memo from the White House and clearly understands what’s at stake is ABC’s Jake Tapper, who asked some very pointed questions of “Baghdad Bob” Gibbs, inquiring why the White House felt it had the right to define what is and what is not a news organization:
Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –
(Crosstalk)
Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.
Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are “not a news organization.” How are they any different from, say –
Gibbs: ABC -
Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?
Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say?
Gibbs: That’s our opinion.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier weighs in, even comparing the Cult of Obama to the Cult of Scientology.
What flashes to my mind is Scientology. Stay with me here. One of the very first precepts in their ideology is to take control–control everything. Another precept is to match tone. That is, if someone is combative, match the person’s tone.
And then what comes to mind is this: all cults have the same traits. Controlling the message, building a personality, stagecraft, etc. The Obama administration came to power by force of jingo …
The Obama administration is filled with Marxists, utopians, and workers with fluff resumés. It’s better if no one looks too closely. The president’s agenda is meeting with opposition from the American people. The only way to change that is to try to harm the messenger. Really, the only way to do that is to harm all messengers.
There is only one voice President Obama wants the American people to hear and it’s his own.
President Barack Hussein Hubbard? Or is it L. Ron Obama?
