Today's Republican Primary Voter's Guide

Gone are the days when you go to the ballot box and vote for the "R" that the party selected for you. Today's politics is being infiltrated at every level by the working man, the professional, the busy mom and the silent members of the majority who used to come home after a long day and be thankful to grab the remote around 9 or 9:30 and catch a good comedy or two on the TV before grabbing a late night snack and heading off to bed. The couch potato has suddenly realized that there will be no couch, or at best it might be redistributed to someone who has spent the day leaning on a post if he or she doesn't get off it and hit the phones or the computer.

Today is a big day. Those voting in Republican primaries have an opportunity to send a message to the establishment: there will be no more business as usual! Hard working slobs, average Joes and ladies who would normally be putting their kids to bed, exhausted from the days toil, are taking those extra couple of hours normally spent on the couch to do something that they never thought they'd have to do: save their country.

Today, Kelly Ayotte will get her opportunity to be nominated to run for Senate in New Hampshire.  One could argue Ayotte's "establishment," but she is not like the establishment candidates that Sarah Palin has taken on. Ayotte is a conservative woman and a mom. She fits the Mama Grizzly meme. She represents more of what the establishment should look like after we take it over than the way it is now with party insiders just doing their own bidding at the expense of the voters and taxpayers.

One myth to dispel regarding Kelly Ayotte is a smear being used to try to paint her as sympathetic to Planned Parenthood. "The Telegraph stated in part that '(Ovide) Lamontagne had planned to bring up Ayotte’s decision as attorney general to have state taxpayers pay $300,000 in legal fees to Planned Parenthood,' leaving out five critical words: as ordered by the court." Read more here. Ayotte has been endorsed by the National Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony List. She also has a strong record as Attorney General. Sarah Palin described her as "one tough 'Granite Grizzly' who has broken barriers, fought off and locked up criminals, and stood up for New Hampshire families."

While Ovide Lamontagne is a good candidate, he is running against a conservative Republican with a strong record who has used her status within the Republican Party responsibly.

In Delaware on the other hand, Mike Castle, who earned a 52% rating by the ACU, is a true RINO and presents a true contrast to outsider Christine O'Donnell similar to the one that Murkowski presented to Joe Miller. Although O'Donnell does not have the resume that Miller has, she has the heart, the fighting spirit and the common sense of a Miller. O'Donnell has suffered personal financial hardships which she has not lied about or covered up. Instead, she overcame them and "has broken through to the other side," as she said on Fox News this morning. She demonstrates a winning spirit and attitude that eventually, if one has faith and perserverence, leads to the overcoming of obstacles that would normally cause a lesser woman in her position to question her ability to even give it a shot. Castle is the typical insider - a good old boy who has been overcoming his RINO record by being a liberal Republican in a blue state.

Christine O'Donnell is real. She understands what needs to be done to take this country back. She gets it.

Maryland's race is somewhere between the New Hampshire and Delaware races as far as the ideological spectrum goes. On paper, Robert Ehrlich is an okay candidate. His 83% ACU rating would keep him in the tent, although probably somewhere over on the left edge at the McCain table. At first glance, Sarah Palin's endorsement of Brian Murphy causes one to pause and wonder. However, given the fact that "Ehrlich is not pro-life and opposes display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings," according to a 2001 article from Human Events (hardly written in today's environment of Tea Party purism), one can understand why the pro-life Palin would want to endorse his opponent.

At first, this blogger was not fully in touch with Palin's reasoning (a borderline "sin" for someone who views Palin as Reagan's politcally incarnate daughter). But, when Ehrlich melted down after Palin's endorsement, William F. Buckley's statement about being "governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone directory " made a whole lot more sense. Palin's endorsement of Brian Murphy is highlighted by the contrast of views between establishment types and true grassroots. And after looking at Ehrlich's pro-life record, questionable 2nd amendment credentials and vitriolic response to Palin's endorsement of Murphy, one couldn't help but conclude that even if Palin picked Murphy's name out of the Maryland phone book, choosing this longshot actually wasn't that bad of a thing.

Put a strong conservative with an impeccable record like Kelly Ayotte into the Sentate in Maryland. Get rid of a RINO like Mike Castle and put a real commonsense conservative like Christine O'Donnell in the Senate in Delaware. And don't let an unhinged career politician like Robert Ehrlich back into a Governor's seat that is better served by the likes of a Brian Murphy who has real private sector experience.

When we look at our vision of what we want those who lead us to look like, we have to seize upon the opportunity to vote for the ones today who will be part of that vision tomorrow. Kelly Ayotte, Christine O'Donnell and Brian Murphy fit that vision best in today's races. Go vote and make it happen.

Shannyn Moore (No Journalist, just a climber) Tweets list of Protestors

The tweet is no longer available due to blockage (Update: see below), but I got the link to the FB page that she was promoting. Mudflats is also at the the event. And we know greenie agitator Desa Jacobsson is the organizer. Palingates is tweeting (and stealing pictures from the Alaska Dispatch) and blogging as well. Same old boring washed up has been protestors are trying to drum stuff up as usual. (yawn)

Shannyn Moore helps us identify those who think restoring honor and raising money for charity is a bad thing:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146239658749648&ref=mf

Destroying Honor! Palingates Steals Photos From Media Outlet

WE MUST NEVER FORGET!

WE MUST NEVER
FORGET!

On 9/11/01, this writer went into work after the twin towers came down
and told everyone in the office "let the bombing begin." While it took
some time to get the logistics of the operation in place, it was exactly
what this citizen requested. Our great president, George W. Bush
approved of a military campaign of intensive bombing in Afghanistan of
Taliban and terrorist targets. On 10/07/01, when the news broke, the
flags waved and the celebration began at this writer's house. It is a
celebration of freedom, and the willingness of this great nation to go
to war to protect those freedoms.

While nothing will bring back the lives of those killed in the
Terrorist Attacks of 9/11/01, a great giant has been awakened to answer
the call: destroy terrorism and the nations that harbor it.

To keep it short and to the point, the President made 3 basic points
with which no one can disagree with:

1. Osama bin Laden will be brought to justice. This is still a work in progress, but the goal will be achieved.

2. The economy will respond due to the resolve of the American people. It did.

3. This will be a long campaign, some aspects of which we are not
familiar with since we've never seen this type of warfare before.


I wish the victims and their families hero status, and I wish for a
complete and successful campaign to destroy the evil that caused this
mess.

God bless the United States of America.


THE BEST BUSH QUOTES

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Sarah in Wonderland

In Alice in Wonderland, as in Barack Obama's world, "everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

In Sarah in Wonderland (1:00 in), "things that should be up are down, what's inside's really outside. Everything is really reversed in terms of the trend that we should be heading. No. He's (Obama) doing everything opposite."



Sarah Palin endorsed Christine O'Donnell in a brilliant move when Sean asked her the million dollar question about her retweet of Tammy Bruce's tweet. I had asked this question and awaited an answer. Then the answer came.

Sarah Palin is looking to fix the view of the "wonderland" through the looking glass by supporting strong Constitutional conservatives. When we all look at it again in two years, maybe it won't look so nonsensical.

The interview is top shelf. Listen to the recording again because Sarah packs a lot of stuff into a short period of time. Notice the Margaret Thatcher references. Notice who she is describing.

I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date... a rendezvous with destiny.

How Liberals and GOP Insiders Made Me Endorse Christine O'Donnell

I think I started following Christine O'Donnell a few weeks ago on Twitter because someone tweeted me asking me to follow her. So I did. I wasn't really thinking about getting too heavily involved in her race because I was so wrapped up in Joe Miller's race that I was only keeping up with the other candidates by retweeting other like-minded conservatives who were supporting them. But yesterday the "smear-o-meter" went off like crazy. I thought to myself, what is Sarah Palin up in Delaware today?

Here in my blog batcave, I went over to the screen to see what all the fuss was about. Apparently, the liberals and the political establishment were going into convulsions after the Tea Party Express endorsed Christine O'Donnell for the Senate primary in Delaware. I checked out this article on Yahoo. Holy smear campaign Batman! Even the Republican Party is in on it!

Stacy McCain (who just ran up the score in street cred by getting an interview with Todd Palin following the Miller win) also provided some compelling evidence that made my blood boil about the insider Republican Party establishment in Delaware. My first reaction of course is to equate smear with fear. Then rule of thumb number 2 comes into play. Whenever Republicans become as despicable as Democrats, look for the RINO.

When I followed the RINO dung, it led my right to Mike Castle whose whopping 52% ACU rating, according to Cubachi, made me wonder if my silence would be mistaken as support for a caviar club Republicans with knife in the back cronies whose elitist ideas of free market capitalism and small government include any manipulation of the system for personal gain and power that isn't socialism. Pass the Grey Poupon. Oh, that Christine O'Donnell is such a commoner.

I had already heard and read some of the great things that Mark Levin was saying and writing about her. I had already watched a really great interview conducted by Melissa Clouthier. One by one, all the people I listen to, read and have regard for were supporting O'Donnell. As of this writing, the Twittersphere was beginning to rumble with word that even Rush Limbaugh was now standing up for O'Donnell.

Which means I have to hurry now. I have a rule. I form an opinion first and then listen to Rush. It's my way of being intellectually honest. Liberals accuse me of being a Rush kool aid drinker. Hey, libbies, he agrees with me 98.6% of the time, not the other way around, okay? I decided Palin was great before I listened to Rush the day she was announced.

I admit, I've been waiting for an official Palin endorsement. But I left it open until today where I figured Palin or no Palin, my love for a classic grass roots conservative candidate versus the sludgy wing of the GOP a la Alaska's primary would win out and require that I endorse. It looks like a fun race, too - a possible repeat of Miller and Murkowski, real conservative Republican outsider versus fake conservative Republican insider. I'll take a large popcorn with butter and a diet coke, please.

Now, I'm not a lemming. I endorsed Eddie Burke in AK and Pamela Gorman in NV without the need of a Palin endorsement. I can go to the bathroom, eat, write a blog post or support a candidate without something having been written her Facebook page. However, as one who uses the rhetorical sword of words to promote the cause, I prefer to be in agreement with the bespectacled warrior who wields the rhetorical version of Excalibur from her Facebook page to substantiate my positions.

And might I be?

Sarah Palin may have weighed in afterall on this race with an ambiguous re-tweet of Tammy Bruce. I've asked Tammy for her take on it and will update this article if she responds.

O'Donnell's staff salivates for Palin's endorsement in the article that also points out that she met Palin briefly at the Restoring Honor Rally. That passes the first part of the litmus test for me. Pro-Palin? Check. For the final dip, place the strip into the liberal waters. Bingo. Positive again! I  link to the tweet here to show you my final piece of evidence in favor of Christine O'Donnell: the left wing's use of guilt by association.

Well, libbies, if O'Donnell seeks out Sarah Palin and if People for the American Way want to build up a resume of debunkable smears before finishing the sentence by asking "is it really all that surprising that she has won the support of Sarah Palin?" then I'm in. I call that a Palin endorsment by left wing triangulation. It's close enough for rock and roll. I'll take it.

And so it with great conservative fortitude and honor that I endorse Christine O'Donnell for Delaware Senate. If we are going to restore the honor and greatness of our country, we have to have people with the right political convinctions in place not just so that we can oppose the Obama agenda after 2010, but so that we have the right coalition who will readily embrace the agenda of a strong Constitutional conservative president should America be smart enough to elect one (and you know of whom I speak).

visit Christine O'Donnell's website

We cannot have liberals who want to run roughshod over the very fabric of our country's nature in power any longer. Nor can return power to those who long for the days of the Potomoc water drinking and go along to get along politics. These types of Republicans who, like dead fish, go with the flow will never take the courageous stands necessary to enact real change for a country that struggles with a top heavy government and evaporating jobs. The Delaware primary is another example of why we need to replace this type of Republican with the right type of Republican.

I echo the sentiments of Jeffrey Lord who writes "The objective is to move the ball." Mike Castle may be wearing a Republican Jersey, but he is playing for the wrong team. He might as well be the Democrat in the race. Christine O'Donnell can move the ball.

And besides, Christine O'Donnell is real. Not only is she the real deal. She gets the deal.

 
VOTE FOR CHRISTINE O'DONNELL!

Water Doesn't Stick to Teflon

Get the popcorn and the drinks. This is starting to get fun. The liberal Palin smear machine is coming completely unhinged, derailing like a train in a comedy where the doors fly off and the wheels roll down the side of the hill.

You can't take the kinds of punches Sarah Palin has taken for the past two years and still be standing - and standing even stronger and taller than you were before you took the punches - unless there is something really weak with the attacker, something really strong about the punch taker or a combination of both. The fact that nothing sticks is definitely a tribute to the courage and the toughness and strength of of the "skin" of the one who would wear the nickname "the teflon mom" as nicely as Reagan wore the name of "the teflon president." However, it is also a testament to the fact that the Leftist smear campaign, like water, doesn't stick to teflon because it has no ingredients.

There is no egg, no meat and no cheese in what the left has been cooking. We're onto them and they are out of ammo.

Robert Stacy McCain exposes the Alinsky-like tactics of the Left:

Bad Faith – The accusation that conservatives are motivated by bad faith (mala fides) is essential to the Left’s attacks. Stigmatizing and marginalizing conservatives is much easier than debating them. Cogent arguments about policy become unnecessary to advancing the Left’s political agenda if they can dismiss its opponents as racist, sexist, homophobic, etc

The Ransom Note Method – By carefully selecting “evidence” of bad faith, the Left is able to present a distorted image of its conservative targets. Out-of-context quotes and controversial biographical data are cherry-picked and re-assembled (in the manner of a kidnapper assembling a ransom note) to present the target in the most damning possible light. This method is particularly effective against conservative talk-radio personalities who engage in polemic battle with leftists. This is why Media Matters devotes such enormous resources to monitoring talk radio in hopes of grabbing a 40-second “gotcha” sound-bite.

The ‘Links and Ties’ Method – More than simple guilt-by-association, the Links-and-Ties Method involves presenting a chain of incidental connections to suggest a sympathy of views that does not actually exist. To wit: Target A once spoke at Event B which was sponsored by Group C, co-founded by Person D who once made controversial statement E. By this method, it is implied that Target A actually endorses Statement E.

Telescoping and Telepathy – The actions, statements and associations of a conservative target acquire a trans-temporal permanence in the smear attacks of the Left. Once a target is associated (however incidentally) with controversy, this association can be repeated endlessly as evidence of bad faith, no matter how many years intervene. Furthermore, if the target is associated in Year X with a respectable person or organization that becomes controversial in Year X+5, that association can be cited in Year X+10 as evidence against the target – even if the target had no involvement in the cause of controversy. Finally, all evidence of bad faith accumulated by these methods is presented as indicative of the target’s deepest and unwavering personal convictions, as if the accuser were possessed of telepathic mind-reading abilities.

Deny, Denounce, Repudiate – The key to these attack methods is the presumption of the target’s guilt. The accuser, having carefully selected the evidence to be discussed in the manner of a prosecutor making an indictment, demands that the target deny the accusation, denounce the bad-faith views involved, and repudiate the persons and organizations to whom he has been connected by the links-and-ties method. As anyone who has been targeted by such attacks can attest, it’s rather like being accused in one of Stalin’s infamous Moscow “show trials.”

John Fricke at American Thinker writes:

The left, especially their media wing, are stunned at what is likely to happen on November 2, 2010 -- not just in the election results or the repudiation of their ideals, but more in that, from nowhere, it seems to them, all the ammo they have is suddenly worthless. Backs against the coming electoral wall, they have attacked on every front, using their entire arsenal. Americans who oppose their agenda on any given issue have been, and still are, called the most vicious names the media can conjure up. Homophobic, Islamaphobic, xenophobic, greedy, and, of course, racist. Their media does its not-so-subtle best to paint conservatives with a blood brush, from direct attacks (Time magazine asking if "America [is] Islamaphobic" -- meaning anyone who dares disagree with the liberal position on the mosque at Ground Zero is a racist) to the indirect assaults (CNN referring to the massive crowd at Glen Beck's 8/28 Washington rally as "predominantly white" -- insinuating that the crowd was a collection of racists). Those and all their other attacks have failed. For the first time in modern American political debate, the liberal label gun is jamming. Worse for liberals, the bullets will likely never be effective again.

In these "bullets" we've found the root cause for Palin Derangment Syndrome: Palinphobia. Whitney Pitcher writes at Conservatives4Palin:

So as the Left continues to fear the influence and effectiveness of Governor Palin, they continue to show new symptoms of Palinophobia. No longer is Palinophobia marked solely by the false charge of racism, it also manifests itself with the symptoms of false charges of homophobia and Islamophobia. What's next? It seems that the Left and their cohorts in the media are grasping at straws yet again, but this is not new.

Gone are the days of angst associated with the Left's smear campaign following the 2008 election loss. Having learned to respond with lightning speed to Leftist smears, the armies of truth have taken to their blogs and the Twittersphere to debunk myths, lies and smears as quickly as they are written. The challenge put forth by those who relentlessly smear Governor Palin and the Tea Party movement has been like a workout that leaves Palin's supporters intellectually buff and ready at a moment's notice. And Palin herself is noticeably cut in her ability to talk policy, respond to smears in a media savvy way and connect with the people via her Facebook page. Intellectually flabby Leftists and ankle biters who tried everything they could to stop her have failed miserably. The gig is up.

As the Journolist story broke, the laughable Emily's list "Mama Grizzly" video was released and writers everywhere were writing stories about Sarah Palin's waning influence in the wake of an anticipated Lisa Murkowski primary win, those on the right were quickly flicking the Left off like harmless gnats. When Michael Joseph Gross wrote the Vanity Fair hit piece, it was as if a puny 90 pound weakling had come to take on the muscle man that Palin and her army has become today.

Dr. Gina Loudon, in addressing the author of the Vanity Fair hit piece on Big Journalism, Micheal Joseph Gross, may have just summed up the entirety of the Left's epic failure of a smear campaign:

I think your piece (which has been rebuked by liberals and conservatives alike) may have pushed anyone who doubted the Palins square into their corner. You may have done more for her than a million dollars worth of marketing. You may have boosted her shot at the White House. We may all be thanking you for that one day.

While the smears against Sarah Palin will continue (the smear campaign against Ronald Reagan continued throughout his entire presidency), you can mark this down: the Vanity Fair 18 page empty shell will come to symbolize the moment when the smear campaign became impotent and limp.

The smears the Left passed around to each other like syphillis may have once created a false apprehension in the less astute reader, voter, independent or moderate; but ultimately even these people will find that Palin is more palatable than they've been led to believe, especially if they are suffering "buyer's remorse" over Obama. They will find that the only thing the Left has to serve them is the burnt toast of hope and change, which in most restaurants gets sent back to the kitchen. Soon these people will be able to order the Palin omelet without everyone around them looking at them funny.

Of Intellectual Mooks and Trollops

I hope it drives the liberals and the Palin haters crazy that she makes so much money.

I can't understand how people like Michael Joseph Gross could get paid for his Vanity Fair article.

Now here's a guy who deserves to be paid: Stacy McCain Meets Todd Palin.

Everyone by now needs to know who the Palin haters are and that the Alaska bloggers are toxic. Put a Satan Sticker on it and move on since this is the limpest, most impotent piece of smear yet to be published about Sarah Palin.

Enjoy the read: Vanity Fair and the Wrath of Sarah Palin.

The Truth about That Dishonest Vanity Fair Palin Story, from One Who Was There

Palin’s New Defenders: Liberal Feminists

How Terrified is the MSM of Sarah Palin? ‘Vanity Fair’ Hack Michael Joseph Gross Quivers in Fear as He Smears, Anonymously

Mike Gallagher on the Vanity Fair Hit Piece (Listen at the 7:15 mark)

Shannyn Moore Is Not A Victim Of Gross' Irresponsibility (Shannyn Moore drowns in the C4P)

You Can Score This Thing By the Number of Hit Pieces

Bloggers and pundits alike have always looked for the magic indicator. With polls failing to provide accurate numbers prior to elections (let's pick Alaska at random as an example of this) and political analysts proving that there are more opinions along the vast ideological spectrum than there are facts to support those opinions, many are beginning to cast off the old illusion that you pretty much can tell who's going to win an election provided that the spread is greater than the margin of error. Yet there is one indicator that is becoming more accurate as time goes on: the liberal establishment hit-o-meter.

It seems for every article you read, you have to read another article to fact check it and then you have to fact check the article you used to fact check the original article. Busy minds trying to weather a recession, and even worse, simple minds who don't even know what  a recession is are getting snippets of information from here and there and then forming what they believe to be coherent arguments as to why they think the TEA Party is racist or why Sarah Palin could never become president.

But I, your humble blogger, have figured it out. And it's as easy as politics for dummies. It's called K.I.S.S. Keep it simple stupid. Too often, we enter into analyzing things a certain way because we ourselves were trained to analyze things by elitists who have convinced us through our Pink Floydian style education system that everything is complicated and that only the brains can get it.

When military units were in combat at night before the invention of night vision, they didn't pull out slide rules and crunch numbers to choose targets. They looked for flashpoints. You could spot the enemy by drawing their fire or seeing their lights and hitting the positions as they lit up.

When you want to determine the effectiveness of a Facebook posting or speech by Sarah Palin or if you want to know if the TEA Party is doing good or if Glenn Beck's rally went well, there is an easy way to do it. Look for the flashpoints.

When you see the hit pieces ratcheting up in the media and across the moronosphere, that should be a clear indicator that whoever is being attacked has hit the nest. It used to be when political strategists or partisan opinion writers were confronted with facts that didn't support their opinions, they would spin. But now they just outright lie. The real morons are the ones who buy the lies whether figuratively or literally by plunking down their money at a newsstand to purchase a Newsweek or a Vanity Fair.

Stacy Drake of Conservatives4Palin says it best.  "Lies are lies... Who wants to pay someone to lie to them?" Then she provides the answer. "The levels the media has sunk since to distort America's perception about [Sarah Palin], is perhaps something that psychology majors should consider a study in." I think theology majors ought to work on that Satan angle as well.

Rebecca Mansour told Tammy Bruce that whenever Sarah Palin has a good week or a great thing happens it's like "okay, here comes another one" with the hit pieces (listen at the 1:40 mark).

Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity on his radio show:

I hear there's some pretty ugly stuff right now coming out and what we predict, we always see a pattern. We've got some victories under the belt. Things are, things are going well, and then, then there is that public slam of us. So, we always expect what's coming.

Palin also tweeted:

When yellow journalism gets ratcheted up for a period of time over an individual or an issue it makes u wonder what's up? What's the threat?

This should explain why publications like Newsweek, Vanity Fair and American Prospect get drivel all over themselves whenever Sarah Palin does something that works like backing a longshot Senate candidate who wins or when the TEA Party or Glenn Beck hit a nerve with the truth.

Glenn Beck was smashed by the lamestream media for his highly successful Restoring Honor Rally. The TEA Party was smashed by the lamestream media for its highly successful rally last year on 9/12. Sarah Palin was smashed by the lamestream media for backing longshot candidates who were successful. Get it? The key word is successful. One can only imagine what would have happened if they failed.

From now on, we need to put a "Satan sticker" on every hit piece that is written. Let's flag these articles and pundits when they open their big fat mouths on television. Why? Because we're keeping score. The more hit pieces and drive-bys we see, the more we can tell we are winning.

Let me offer Patrick's rule. If it is a hit piece that follows a success, it gets 2 points. If it's a hit piece leading up to a success, it gets 1 points. If the hit pieces stop it means we're doing something wrong.

How many points do all the other Republican contenders have right now? How many does Sarah have? According to my numbers, she wins the GOP nomination by a landslide.