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Unite or Die [Reader Post]

stix1972 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:34:58 +0000

A few years ago, HBO had a series about John Adams. It was a great illustration of how our country came to be. Citizens of the North American Continent went against England, one of the most powerful countries in the world. There were many disagreements amongst the American colonists on what to do about the overbearing English. But in the end they came to an agreement and joined forces to fight against the Redcoats. The Independence that the colonists fought so hard for was also independence for the individual, something unique for that time.

I am bringing this up because today we have infighting amongst ourselves on how to deal with a modern day threat – Socialism/Statism. Other labels we hear are the Progressives, the Left, Liberals, but we face the same threat. If those on the “Right” side of the aisle (Constitutional Conservatives as Vassar noted in a comment) do not unite, we will fail. As with the movie 300, we are fighting a Beast.

That Beast has been around for over 100 years and is trying to transform our country from what the Founding Fathers had laid out in our Constitution. We have been slowly, but incrementally moving away from the great experiment that is called the United States. For decades the Government has been taking away our freedoms, but we have also been guilty of giving them up. And now we struggle with a loss of faith in the America that our Founding Fathers established for us. The Government was founded to protect our liberty and freedoms, not to give out hand-outs, and have the citizens become dependent on the Government. A welfare state is being created from this dependency.

Too many in this country care more about who sleeps with whom in Hollywood, or who is the latest American Idol, than what is happening in DC. But there are many that are finally awakening from the sleep and joining the few that were standing guard. The Tea Parties and various other groups have made people look at what the Federal Government is doing. A phenomenal awareness has arisen among the people, more than I have ever witnessed before. The citizens are seeing incredible wasteful spending by their elected officials. When they cry for redress, they are ignored. It is almost as if Congress has forgotten they were elected by the people to work for the people.

The problem: there is much infighting among the groups that want to stop the behemoth in DC; people cannot hear what each has to say. Too much noise. We have fiscal Conservatives fighting the Social Conservatives. Libertarians fighting Conservatives and everything in between. We are all in this fight for the same reason, to stop the Statists from transforming the United States into something similar to a European Socialist state. We know we must work together, or separately we will fail. Common ground must be found; focus on the goals. What’s that saying, “Keep your eyes on the prize.” The prize is our nation, as we have known and loved her.

Ann Coulter At CPAC

Curt — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:30:07 +0000

Great video from CPAC from Ann Coulter:

She notes how the MSM bias will eventually lead to a constant attack on whoever the frontrunner for the Republican party is while giving a pass to the Democrat frontrunner.

“I think my most important point on should run and who the conservative leader, the Republican leader is – we can’t tell them. I think it would be better if like a month before the election we announce who we’re running for president because of the media’s obsessive desire to know who’s your leader – is it Michael Steele, is it Rush Limbaugh, is it Glenn Beck, is it Sarah Palin? They want us to tell them who our leader is so they can ferociously fixate on them and destroy him or her.”

The libertarian questions and answers are quite funny.

If Ron Paul is behind it and it has NOTHING to do with foreign policy then I’m behind it.

And my favorite:

If you not leaving liberals in a sputtering rage then your not doing your job!

The Obama Hypocrisy: Fail To Complain About Democrat Obstruction During Bush Admin But Complain About Repub. Obstruction Now

Curt — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:07:09 +0000

Byron York writes about Obama railing against the attempts by Republicans to stop his railroading of the United States:

In his speech at a Denver fundraiser yesterday, President Obama repeated what has become a key talking point for Democrats — that the Senate “doesn’t get anything done” and the reason for that is that some Republicans, who “don’t believe in government,” are happy to block the administration’s initiatives because blocking government initiatives is “consistent with their philosophy.” Here’s what the president said:

Look, something you got to understand — for those who don’t believe in government, those who don’t believe that we have obligations to each other, it’s a lot easier task. If you can gum up the works, if you make things broken, if the Senate doesn’t get anything done, well, that’s consistent with their philosophy. It’s a whole lot easier to say no to everything. It’s a whole lot easier to blame somebody else. That politics that feeds on peoples’ insecurities, especially during tough political times — that’s the easiest kind of politics. There’s a long, storied history of that kind of politics.

It’s a charge you’ll no doubt hear more in the coming campaign.

The point of Byron’s article is to point out the flip-flop of this talking point since it wasn’t too long ago that the President was praising Congress about how much they got done because of his “new direction.”

I don’t disagree and its a valid point to bring up but I want to point out that Obama didn’t complain about this kind of behavior when the Democrats were the minority during the Bush administration. Why didn’t he bring up the blocking of legislation by Democrats on The Patriot Bill? Bush’s energy bill? The border security bill? Parental notification bill? Class-action lawsuit reform?

And this was only after five minutes of digging (if you find more examples please leave them in the comments).

So why wasn’t he complaining then?

Because back then it was ok to shut down the Senate on important matters because they didn’t want the legislation. But now that the Democrats are in power its NOT ok.

Hypocrisy, thy name is the Democratic Party.

Tea Party Candidate May Ensure A Harry Reid Win; Update – Tea Party Name Hijacked?; Update & Bumped: More Research On The Party; Update: A Front For Paulbots? Harry Reid Minions? Or Both?

Curt — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:15:15 +0000

This is just beyond asinine. (h/t doubleplusundead)

Sun columnist Jon Ralston is reporting that the Tea Party has qualified as a third party in Nevada and will have a candidate in the Senate race to battle for the seat held by Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The party has filed a Certificate of Existence but needs to get 1 percent of the electorate to vote for its candidate in November to permanently qualify, according to the report.

Ralston reported that Jon Ashjian will be the Tea Party’s U.S. Senate candidate on the November ballot. Ashjian still must declare his candidacy.

Awesome…..this goes a long way towards ensuring Harry Reid stays the Senator of that State.

Look, I’m all for the tea party being a force behind conservatives and agree with much that they stand for but dammit….making a third party is just a recipe for disaster. A complete and utter disaster.

UPDATE

Many thanks to the Freepers who have investigated this Tea Party of Nevada group:

Dr. Sid James, Chairman
Curtis Atwood, Vice Chairman (Atwood Building & Development (LV), contractor)
Eric Scholer, Second Vice Chairman (Scholer Steele & Associates (LV), insurance)
Barry Levinson, Secretary (Personal injury/bankruptcy attorney and former attorney for John Wayne Bobbitt)
Daniel Hayden, Treasurer
Kiana Hayden, At Large Member
Romy Ashjian, At Large Member
Keith Ozawa, At Large Member (President of American Leak Detection, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Jim Ebel, At Large Member
Larry Lathum, At Large Member

The TEA Party and Local Elections [Reader Post]

Gary Kukis — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:17:28 +0000

Texas

My friends and family in California may not understand this, but many of us here in Texas believe that Texas is far too liberal for our blood. “But you don’t have a personal state income tax; you let people shoot burglars in other people’s front yards; everyone is Texas drives around with either a concealed weapon or a rifle prominently displayed in the window of your Ford 150’s.” This is all good stuff, I agree, but it is not good enough.

Many Texans believe that, closely tied to freedom is the freedom to own property. We Texans know that we have to pay taxes, and that pisses us off, but we will pay our taxes. However, what has happened here as of late is, property taxes have shot through the roof; they have more than doubled over the past 10 years (even with the reduction of property values), in part to feed a school system which is steadily getting worse, despite their getting a lot more money. Many of us Texas don’t like this. We don’t like to feel as if we are renting our property from the government. When we buy a plot of land, we want to own it; we don’t want to pay rent on it to the government, and that is essentially what has happened here in Texas with our property taxes. Sure, people pay higher property taxes in some liberal states, but this is hand-over-the-heart Texas, where some of us would vote for having a hunting season on liberals, so we don’t want to pay $3000–$5000/year for a house we own free and clear. I know one family who pays the Texas government around $12,000/year to live in their own home.

Here is what’s going on politically. There’s Governor Rick Perry, George W’s former lieutenant governor (or whatever we call ‘em here) who has been governor for about 10 years and is considered the conservative in the race.

Running against him is Kay Bailey Hutchison, a conservative Republican Senator, and she is portrayed as the Washington outsider (although people from outside the state see her as a Texas conservative).

They are both running for governor, and the Democratic nominee will be Bill White, who was a reasonable mayor for Houston (even though he is a Democrat, he’s probably to the right of Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Then there is this nobody candidate, running in the Republican primary, Deborah Medina, who has not run for office before, but she wants to run the greatest state in the union, and she might actually win. I watch a little tv and I see nothing but ad after ad after ad of Rick Perry calling Kay Bailey a Washington insider; and Hutchison calling Perry a phoney conservative with too many lobbyists in his administration; and I have yet to see a single ad for Medina. Yet, here are the polls:

October 2009
Perry 42%
Hutchison 30%
Medina 7%

February 2010
Perry 39%
Hutchison 27%
Medina 24%

You know that I pay some attention to politics, and yet, I will admit, I have not seen a single ad for Medina, I missed the Texas primary debates, and I heard Medina talk for the first time a few minutes ago (she was on a radio interview with someone who had previously dismissed her as an unimportant candidate). I saw what she looked like for the first time while writing this article.

By osmosis, I knew enough about Medina to realize that she was much closer to my way of thinking than Perry and Hutchison and that she is able to actually run an organization.

At the top of her webpage is the statement: “We Texans…want the government out of our bedrooms, pockets, libraries, and lives.” Mike Blevins, Lubbock. This statement changes daily.

In Texas, no one can win unless they have 50% of the vote. Even though Perry and Hutchison have powerful political organizations, this election looks like it will come down to Perry and Medina as the top two candidates, neither having 50%; and Medina will take this election in the run-off. This will be a great victory for the citizens of Texas.

Florida

In another surprise election, Charlie Crist, former governor of Florida, is facing Marco Rubio in the Republican primary. Most of the time, Crist would have stood for this seat unchallenged. He was a popular governor and a centrist Republican. He can work with Democrats. However, conservatives in Florida know what Democrats want, and they don’t want someone who can work with that. So Marco Rubio steps up, as the people’s candidate, as the conservative alternative, and he is giving Crist a run for his money. Crist won’t even debate him.

There might be some of you reading this, thinking, but aren’t you conservative Republicans a bunch of racists? How can you support Rubio? I find this charge so insulting, that I should issue a warning that, if you actually believe this, you do not want to come to Texas during October and November, which will probably become hunting season for liberals. Sometimes you have to thin the herd for its own good.

From Rubio’s website:

In 1971, Marco was born in Miami to Cuban-born parents who came to America following Fidel Castro’s takeover. When he was eight years old, Rubio and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where his father worked as a bartender at the Sams Town Hotel and his mother as a housekeeper at the Imperial Palace Hotel. In 1985, the family returned to Miami where his father continued working as a bartender at the Mayfair House Hotel until 1997. Thereafter he worked as a school crossing guard until his retirement in 2005. His mother worked as a Kmart stock clerk until she retired in 1995.

Rubio attended South Miami Senior High School, graduating in 1989. He attended Tarkio College in Missouri for one year on a football scholarship before transferring to Santa Fe Community College and then graduating in 1993 with a bachelor of science from the University of Florida. He continued his studies at the University of Miami where he earned his juris doctor, cum laude, in 1996.

From 2000-2008, Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives. During this period, he served as Majority Whip, Majority Leader and Speaker of the House, effectively promoting an agenda of lower taxes, better schools, a leaner and more efficient government and free market empowerment. Rubio also helped spearhead Florida’s congressional and legislative redistricting effort. He chaired the House Select Committee on Property Rights, which crafted national model legislation to protect private property rights following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Kelo v. City of New London decision that opened the door for eminent domain abuse.

To a conservative, this sort of background brings tears to our eyes. We love anyone who understands just how great American is, and who better than a man who comes from a humble background with immigrant parents who worked hard to achieve the American dream. Besides, Crist is far too tan.

Marco’s victory won’t be an upset. It is the natural result of people waking up, seeing what President Obama is doing, and deciding, no, that is not what we want for America; we don’t even want someone who will meet Obama halfway.

The elections in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts were great victories for the people of the United States, which affirmed the power of the TEA party movement. However, these two elections in Texas and Florida are much more indicative of how deep this movement goes. As one women at a townhall meeting announced, “You have awakened a sleeping giant.”

GOP Will Meet With Obama Over ObamaCare If He Agrees To Start Over

Curt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:13:47 +0000

GOP says they will agree to meet with Obama over the Health Care bill if he agrees to start over from scratch……good for them.

No more of the typical Dem way. Meaning the backroom deals, the buying off of politicians, no more Obama telling the country what we need. Instead, you listen to us and WE tell you what we need.

In the end, this ain’t gonna happen. If Obama gives in to the Republicans & the American people then he will lose his base even more. This bill is only about votes. It’s no longer about fixing real problems with health care in this country. So he will meet and try to dictate terms. Does the GOP have the spine to say no?

According to this letter it does:

Assuming the President is sincere about moving forward on health care in a bipartisan way, does that mean he will agree to start over so that we can develop a bill that is truly worthy of the support and confidence of the American people? Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said today that the President is “absolutely not” resetting the legislative process for health care. If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate.

Assuming the President is sincere about moving forward in a bipartisan way, does that mean he has taken off the table the idea of relying solely on Democratic votes and jamming through health care reform by way of reconciliation? As the President has noted recently, Democrats continue to hold large majorities in the House and Senate, which means they can attempt to pass a health care bill at any time through the reconciliation process. Eliminating the possibility of reconciliation would represent an important show of good faith to Republicans and the American people

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Will the President be inviting officials and lawmakers from the states to participate in this discussion? As you may know, legislation has been introduced in at least 36 state legislatures, similar to the proposal just passed by the Democratic-controlled Virginia State Senate, providing that no individual may be compelled to purchase health insurance. Additionally, governors of both parties have raised concerns about the additional costs that will be passed along to states under both the House and Senate bills

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Finally, as you know, this is the first televised White House health care meeting involving the President since last March. Many health care meetings of the closed-door variety have been held at the White House since then, including one last month where a sweetheart deal was worked out with union leaders. Will the special interest groups that the Obama Administration has cut deals with be included in this televised discussion?

Ok, now it comes down to if the Republicans can show the courage to refuse this invitation if Obama will not support starting over from scratch.

I’m not so sure.

I hope they do since this is obviously just a ploy by Obama to get face time on the networks to say “hey, we invited them to talk to us.” When the only thing that is going to happen is Obama will try and dictate terms to conservatives and the majority of this country.

Jon Stewart – Olbermann An Idiot

Curt — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:13:48 +0000

Well, he didn’t say those exact words but that’s what you walk away with when you watch the whole 10 minute clip of Stewart laying into the Olbernutbag. Of course Jon had to throw some Rush Limbaugh red-meat to his audience but the rest of this clip was out-friggin-standing: (h/t Taqiyyotomist)

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Special Comment – Keith Olbermann’s Name-Calling

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Political Humor

Health Care Crisis

If that video doesn’t work try the one below:

[See post to watch Flash video]

Color Me Happy [Reader Post]

Nancy Morgan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:30:22 +0000

I’m smiling. A grin that just won’t quit is plastered on my face because of the stunning upset last night when a, gasp, Republican won the bluest of all Senate seats, thus throwing sand in the gears of the Obama machine’s march towards socialism.

Republican Scott Brown whipping the pants off Coakley last night is cause for rejoice. As is the delicious schadenfreude of seeing the left in disarray, pointing fingers and laying blame for the historic repudiation of leftists, Obama and everything they have been trying to force down our throats for the last year. It appears America may survive Obama after all. And what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

As Rush Limbaugh noted, many Democrats are headed for the tall grass. If a vote was held today on Obama’s health care bill, at least 5 formerly sure votes wouldn’t materialize. Last night’s wake-up call has the ‘less elite’ Democrats being brought face to face with the stark reality that they are accountable to ‘we the people’ instead of the Obama machine. And a vote for Obama could very well mean they will be enjoying their lucrative pensions much sooner than they thought.

Scott Brown’s historic upset doesn’t mean America is home free. I predict the Democrat leadership will continue ignoring the will of the American people and probably enact an unconstitutional health care bill. And I expect they will also continue taxing us to death as they redistribute our wealth to their union buddies and politically connected rent seekers. The good news is, the American people have shown that they will not stand for it.

Nancy, Harry and other political ‘elites’ have a terminal case of inside the beltway syndrome- also known as cognitive dissonance. They have bought into their own version of reality. A reality that doesn’t allow for the possibility that their own narrow world view isn’t the universally accepted view they believe it is. And any version that doesn’t comport with theirs is, well, invalid. And one election in Massachusetts isn’t going to change their minds.

Case in point: Noticeably absent from all talking points today, is any serious discussion by leftists of the fact that this election was a referendum on Obama. A stunning rebuke. A warning bell that Americans don’t want what he is selling.

Leftists, instead of learning from their mistakes, will continue doing what they do so well. They will ignore unpleasant realities in hopes they will go away. If that doesn’t work, they will re-define them, spin them, repackage them and trot out a new improved version of the same old same old. But their tactics are wearing thin, as is Obama’s charisma and ability to influence. As is the old media’s ability to control the discussion.

I know what Obama and crew still don’t know. That the American people have finally seen the light and they don’t like it one bit. And they are not going to sit back and let Obama turn this country into another failed socialist state. The people have spoken, but the Democrats still have waxy yellow build-up.

The left will continue their path towards assisted suicide due to their complete inability to allow for the possibility that the American people know better than than political elites what is best for America. And when Demoicrats are thoroughly repudiated again in the next election cycle, they’ll continue to blame Bush or race or sexism. They will not change. And they will lose again.

I must admit to a certain satisfaction in the fact that one of my truisms is coming true. I’ve always said ‘Give the left enough rope and they’ll end up hanging themselves.’ Nice to know some things never change.

Crossposted from Right Bias

Even If Brown Wins The Dem’s Still Have Plenty Of Options To Pass ObamaCare…We Need To Keep Our Eyes On The Ball

Curt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:58:28 +0000

Really good post by Rick Moran today in which he details what the Democrats options are if Brown wins. That’s not a sure thing and many conservatives should remember this.

Anyhoo….Rick:

The panicked Democrats are thrashing about trying to come up with a way to save health care reform if Republican Scott Brown wins the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat.

The first scenario involves challenging the results of the election, no matter how much Brown wins by. The Democrats have already deployed their crack team of election law lawyers who will attempt to muck up the process of counting the ballots, challenging machine counts, trying to force a recount if the result is close enough, and generally throwing a monkey wrench into the proceedings.

The Massachusetts Secretary of State must certify the results within 10 days of the election.

This means that he won’t be seated until the end of January at the earliest and unless he wins big, he will probably be delayed even further meaning the caretaker of that seat will remain there when ObamaCare is brought up for a vote.

Rick then quotes Jonathan Chait at TNR who gives 3 options. Hold the vote before Brown is seated, have the House pass the Senate version and then use a reconciliation bill to implement the bill, and the last option is to flip Snowe.

Rick again:

The Maine senator may very well end up voting for the revised package since, according to Chait, all of her concerns about the bill have been met. Her calculation now is purely political; how badly does she want to remain in the Republican party?

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If the Democrats were to employ reconciliation in getting health care reform passed, the Republicans would have no choice but to bring the senate to a standstill. If they didn’t, the Democrats would be able to ride roughshod over them for the rest of the year, not to mention destroying the principle of minority rights. It is a scorched earth option that the Democrats use at their own peril.

The only other option the Democrats have is to vote to get rid of the filibuster entirely. This, I don’t see happening. Saner heads in the party realize that they will not always be in the majority and that the filibuster is a useful tool to block legislation.

So don’t think for one minute that a turning tide in Massachusetts means we can just sit back and bask in the glory. There are still plenty of tricks up the sleeves the slimy politicians. The key will be when Brown is seated, and I see challenge after challenge coming from the fatcat lawyers the Dem’s are sending to the state.

But….the first thing that needs to be done is to ensure a large Brown victory, and THEN we will deal with the typical corrupt trickery from the Democrats.

What Can Brown Do For You? Plenty! [Reader Post]

mlajoie2 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:00:31 +0000

Don’t look now. The news has just hit that Scott Brown is within striking distance of Martha Coakley in the race for the Senate Seat in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Rasmussen’s poll of likely voters has seen Democrat Coakley’s lead shrink from 30 % to 9%. The special election is coming in two short weeks. He is absolutely committed to stopping this health care monstrosity in the Senate, and, if elected, he would be that 60^th vote guaranteeing the protection of filibuster! He is also opposed to Federal funding for abortion and several other items of interest to pro-life voters. The time is NOW to act.

‘What can I do?’ you may ask, ‘I don’t live in Massachusetts’. Easy: send CASH at his website. Call relatives in MA and ask them to go get an absentee ballot now. Pass this post on or post or write yourself somewhere accessible to Bay State voters.

We’ve had enough DOWNS; let’s have some UPS with BROWN that isn’t B.S. Let’s get this country moving again!

Just do it. Now.

Newt: “We’re going to have to isolate and crush the secular socialist left”

Curt — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:19:29 +0000

Newt gave a great speech….well, at least this segment of it, at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend last November. Especially now after The Crotch Bomber: (h/t From Sea To Shining Sea)

It ends with this, after telling the story of George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware:

I want you to go away from here, after this weekend, and look every successful person you know in the eye, and look every patriot in the eye, and tell them. There are young men and women risking their lives all around this planet. In uniform, in the State Department, in the intelligence community, so we can be free. Don’t tell me how much you given. Don’t tell me how tired you are. Don’t tell me how frustrating it is. This country was created by people who are willing to say victory or death while marching in burlap bags in the middle of snow storm. We’re going to have to find those people again, we’re going to have to run people for five hundred and thirteen thousand offices, in both parties. We’re going to have to isolate and crush the secular socialist left and we’re going to have to replace their failed system with systems that succeed. This is work George Washington would of approved of. And this is work you need to take seriously for the next three years so we can give our children and grandchildren the greatest, freest, most prosperous country in history.

I disagree with the man some of the time but he still has a lot to offer the Republican party and conservatives in general. He has made mistakes, like Scozzafava, or praising Obama when no praise was deserved. But in general he has the country, and our party, at heart.

Who Cares?

Wordsmith — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:04:10 +0000

Nice chart-graphic on charitable givings:

You’ll want to click onto the image, then click to magnify.

Stopping Obama and the Democrats in 30 Days or Less [Reader Post]

Patvann — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:46:05 +0000

This coming January 19th, there is a special election in Massachusetts to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat. There are 3 candidates: Republican State Sen. Scott Brown, Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley, and Independent Joe Kennedy, who is not related to the well-known clan. The turnout for the primaries on December 9th, was barely 11%, and Coakley presently leads in the polls.

If this seat goes to Brown, the Democrats loose their 60th seat, and will no longer be able to break a Republican filibuster.

I looked around, and noticed that this is being kept very quiet in the media. Then I wondered why? It occurs to me that they know damn well how pissed of American’s are, especially Conservatives.

BTW, Scott Brown is one hell of a conservative candidate.

I wonder if they are trying to keep this race off the TeaParty radar? I wonder what will happen if it DOES get on that radar?

Let’s help! Let’s all send e-mails to our friends, family, and anyone else you can think of to start spreading the word about this race. If NY-23 was deemed critical, this is even more so. Call and e-mail your local TeaParty and Republican offices and get them motivated! Write Scott Brown to see if you can help with phone-calls or anything else he needs from us. Let’s hear from some of those experienced with campaigning to give us some more ways to help him win this.

We need less than 60 Dems NOW, and we can’t wait for next November. LET’S ROLL!!

Marco Rubio: A Conservative Worthy of Hiring for Florida Senate

Mike's America — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:52:32 +0000

He’s pulled even in polls with powerhouse RINO, FL Gov. Charlie Crist!

I often listen to WOKV AM-690 from Jacksonville, Florida whose signal carries well up the coast here to Hilton Head Island, SC. One day,I was shocked when I heard the following ad from Florida Governor Charlie Crist who is now running for the U.S. Senate in 2010:

Sounds good hunh? So why was I shocked? Because it was only February that Gov. Crist was playing cheerleader for Obama and praising the failed stimulus bill:

What’s worse, now Crist is lying about his support of the stimulus and Obama.

So the question is: do you trust a guy who embraces Obama when it’s popular and then lies about later? Do you think he would be a reliable conservative voice in the U.S. Senate? Besides, conservatives won’t forget that it was Crist who was key to McCain’s victory in the Florida 2008 presidential primary which sealed his nomination. Mark Levin hasn’t forgotten. His commentary on Crist is biting.

There is a solid conservative alternative!

Marco Rubio, 38, former Speaker of the Florida House, is also running for the GOP nomination for the 2010 Senate seat (campaign web site). In the latest polls he has pulled even among likely Florida GOP voters with statewide powerhouse Crist. Born to parents who immigrated from Cuba, Rubio speaks fluent Spanish and would be a valuable GOP asset in attracting more Hispanic votes. It’s also a nice change to have someone who is not a gray haired old man representing the face of the future of the GOP.

I would encourage conservatives who long complain about the lack of true, viable, conservative choices to put their money where their mouth is and back Rubio with a contribution to his campaign. If we must take back the Republican Party, I can’t think of a better place to start!

Conservative for hire… LTC Allen West for Florida Congressman

MataHarley — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:30:46 +0000

Taking a lead from the ever exuberant Mike’s A, I thought I’d showcase an upcoming and inspiring conservative for hire. Since we conservatives are looking for those voices to support, I’m hoping this will be the beginning of an FA “series” of showcases for worthy candidates. And thanks to Mike’sA for the reminder that there is no substitute for good ol’ fashioned grassroots campaigning.

Ret. Lt. Colonel Allen West, a 22 year Army veteran, is running for US Congress in 2010, representing Florida’s 22nd district. That’s Florida’s infamous “hanging chad” arena, Broward and Palm Beach Counties…. and perhaps even Rush Limbaugh’s potential future representative.

LTC West would be replacing Democrat Ron Klein… a lockstep Dem newbie elected in 2006 whose voting record in his brief years of service speaks for itself. LTC West has faced off with Klein before in 2008, garnering 45.3% of the votes to Klein’s 54.7%. But it’s a new era of liberal/progressive spending and attempted extortion of nanny control. LTC Allen needs some word of mouth press.

LTC Allen has been making some recent headlines of late, due to his inspiring performance at Ft. Lauderdale’s Revolution Nightclub (YouTube video below) in October this year. Roll the tape, and be prepared for some straight-from-the-heart, true inspiration and a genuine oratory display – all sans Greek columns.

Need to see a little more of this dynamic individual? He appeared on Hannity a few days ago.

I’d say keep an eye on this guy. TPM already finds him threatening enough to run a story with a “scandalous” and misleading headline… “Allen West, GOP House Candidate: ‘I Hate Big-Tent. I Hate Inclusiveness. And I Hate Outreach’”

Wow… to have made the “hit” list so fast! That’s an endorsement in itself! But of course the complete reading that puts the headline in context escapes the average TPM reader, as you can tell by the ensuing comments. Scary to think this mentality has voting rights… but I digress.

Were LTC West in my backyard, he’d have my vote and footsoldier labor in a heartbeat. Be prepared to “fix bayonets!”. We are in for a battle for the Constitutional heart and minds of our country.

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Support and campaign donations for LTC West can be made here.

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