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"I learned that in extreme situations when human lives and dignity are at state, neutrality is a sin. It helps the killers, not the victims." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor who lost his family in the Holocaust - Nobel Prize Author
Socialism - Liberalism Quotation
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas
Sarah Palin has endorsed former Congressman Tom Tancredo for Governor of Colorado. So far, I don't see a Palin-Tweet. Hear the robo-call endorsement here. See a video below.
Tom Tancredo for Governor
Coloradoan.com says the Tancredo campaign ran out of signs and has recently posted a template on his campaig website. If you are in Colorado and need a sign, visit the homepage linked above and hit the download button to print your own. Tancredo is endorsed by Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann and columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin.
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Remember German Chancellor Angela Merkel getting in Obama's face at the G20 and refusing to try to "spend their way out of the economic crises?" Whatever she is doing, it's working. Unemployment in Germany has not been lower since 1992. Consumer confidence is high. Make no mistake, this is humiliating for Barack Obama. Take a look at the headlines below and think about what Europe thinks about this "elegant, articulate and clean" President, now that Merkel is proven right. Our President casts a long, dark shadow over the White House.
At the time of G20, Merkel's position was called "Merkel's austerity." At the same time, the head of the European Central Bank said: "...the idea that austerity measures could trigger stagnation is incorrect," and Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble said: "Governments should not become addicted to borrowing as a quick fix to stimulate demand...." So, yes we can bring back jobs and confidence. Germany did.
German unemployment fell slightly in October, dropping to its lowest level in 18 years as the impact of persistently strong growth in Europe's top economy continued to filter through to the jobs market.
The number of jobless fell by 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 3.153 million, figures from the Labor Office showed on Thursday, while the headline level dipped to 2.945 million, confirming figures announced a day earlier.
The headline reading fell below the 3 million mark — a key political threshold — for the first time since November 2008, to its lowest point since October 1992.
Data on Europe's biggest economy over the past week has been bullish, signalling its unexpectedly strong recovery could hold up in the face of signs of fragility in the global economy.
Yes, we can do it also. Germany did. November 2nd is the day we begin bringing jobs and confidence back to the U.S.
Linked at Memeorandum, a great place to find the hottest news - Thank You!
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John Dennis is challenging Nancy Pelosi for her House seat. No one seems to think he has a chance, yet SF Weekly says "he'getting there." The video below is a FilmLadd production, and a take-off of A Few Good Men, which Pelosi has none of so, A Few Good Debts titled the video perfectly.
An internal poll conducted over the summertime revealed that roughly 35 percent of local Democrats and Independents were fed up with Pelosi's leadership. That led SF Weekly to do some math.
Pelsoi was re-elected last year with 220,000 votes, or 71 percent of the vote (next runner-up Cindy Sheehan received 46,000 votes, or 16 percent). If 35 percent of Democrats who supported Pelosi did abandon her and vote for Dennis, that'd be another 75,000 votes. So if they all voted for Dennis, that'd be 121,000 votes to Pelosi's 150,000.
Keep in mind that former Board of Supervisors president Matt Gonzalez endorsed John Dennis, as did Sheehan. That's getting there... but even all this is a stretch...
Dennis is not the kind of candidate conservatives describe as "conservative," but he is a businessman, and an entrepreneur - hopefully favorable to business and 'real' jobs. We need as many jobs-maker as we can get in the House. We can worry about the rest later.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Perhaps this race is a precursor to November 2012. Dennis has done a great job and who knows? I expect that Pelosi owns the press, and if Dennis was hotter than a pistol, I doubt we'd know about it.
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Charlie Crist gives Goofy a bad name. Marco Rubio is an American with Cuban-American parents. Rubio's father recently passed away. Rubio is the Republican nominee for a Florida Senate Seat, and Goofy Charlie Crist the Independent candidate for the same seat.
How do we know Charlie Crist has fully transformed into a Democrat? He set himself up as the authority on Hispanic authenticity in the debate with Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek last night on the Tampa Bay Fox affiliate. In fact, Crist goes so far that the other Democrat in the race winds up objecting to the attack after Marco Rubio’s strong rebuttal. Crist attempts to scold Rubio for “turning his back on his Hispanic family,” and then tries to weasel out of it by saying he just read it in a newspaper:
It’s bad enough playing identity politics when one is of the identity in question. It’s doubly offensive when it comes from someone who shares nothing of the ethnicity they purport to represent.
Isn’t Crist the candidate that just “turned his back” on the political party he led in this state only because Rubio was kicking his rear end in primary polling, and then spent the next several months reversing almost every policy position he ever held? Crist has the nerve to lecture Rubio on political ambition?
Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio on Being Hispanic or Not (video)
There is new smear on Allen West for support from The Outlaws Motorcycle Club (AOA). Retired Lt. Col. West is vying to take Democrat incumbent Ron Klein's congressional seat in Florida's 22nd District . The Outlaws support the Colonel. They are arch-enemies of Hells Angels. Both clubs have members in prison.
Allen West
But here's the thing about The Outlaw's support of Allen West: West is a patriot, he reveres the U.S. Constitution and he talks about it. He reveres our Republic and our democracy, and he talks about it. If the Outlaws are supporting West, then they must also support the same. If the Outlaws are ruthless and involved in criminal activity, our laws will deal with them, but apparently the Outlaws that West has had contact with are free citizens of the U.S. They are free to vote, and I believe they will not vote twice, will not vote a non-voter's vote, and will not sign-up illegals and escort them to the polls - all of which Liberals engage in in every election year. See a video below.
Infamously, if you are a Liberal, and famously if you are a Conservative, West gave a belligerent Iraqi civilian police office the opportunity to tell him who was killing soldiers:
After about 20 more minutes of useless questioning, West grabbed the man, held him down near a box full of sand used to discharge jammed weapons, and said something like, "This is it. I'm going to count to five again, and if you don't give me what I want, I'm going to kill you." West held the man down, counted to five, and then fired his pistol into the discharging box about a foot from the Iraqi's head. He began talking. Over the next few minutes, the prisoner gave very specific information about the plot. He named the conspirators, gave times and dates of the assassination plan, and even described how attacks would be made.
After the Iraqi talked, there were no more attacks on U.S. forces. For this, Lt. Col. West was relieved of this campaign:
He was told he would go through an Article 32, which is about the same as a Grand Jury hearing. At the hearing he was asked if he would do the same thing again. West replied "if it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can."Congress sent a letter to the Secretary of the Army in support of him with 95 signatories.
The video below is West talking about the incident in Iraq. View the NBC video of West talking about the Outlaws here. Michelle Malkin has an interesting take on this story here. Thanks to The Blaze.
Jerry Brown or someone in his campaign called Meg Whitman, Brown's Republican opponent for the California governorship, a whore.
Meg Whitman and Jerry Jones
The audio comes from a phone call from Brown to the Los Angeles Police Protective League. Brown was asking for Police support for his candidacy. He left a voicemail, but when Brown thought he had ended the call, the voicemail recorded the following conversation. Would love to know who leaked this.
"Do we want to put an ad out? … That I have been warned if I crack down on pensions, I will be — that they'll go to Whitman, and that's where they'll go because they know Whitman will give 'em, will cut them a deal, but I won't," Brown said.
At that point, a voice — either that of Brown or a second person — can be heard saying: "What about saying she's a whore?"
"Well, I'm going to use that," Brown says. "It proves you've cut a secret deal to protect the pensions."
Nice. It appears that the aide, or in my opinion the voice is that of Brown, suggested actually saying Whitman's "a whore," and his boss, Jerry Brown, said he would "use that." Hear it at about the 2 minute marker below. Just heard Martha MacCallum on Fox News say it was Brown's aide using the "whore" word, but I think she's wrong.
Making deals with unions is usually Democrat territory. This time, a union, the police no-less, cut a deal with a Republican and funneled $450,000 to Whitman's campaign. I'm puzzled at the soundness of the "deal," but will say this, if any pension plan is enhanced, it should be that of the police and firefighters.
So, there are few problems here: Senator Mike Castle is a RINO - yes, he is. He voted for cap and trade and he voted for the DISCLOSE Act. What more do you need to hang the RINO sign around his neck? Those watching the race closely, however, believe Christine O'Donnell is a conservative, but...some of those watching closely do not believe O'Donnell can beat the Democrat opponent. I suggest Republican House leadership secure a good faith pledge from Castle that he will never, ever again vote to silence us with the DISCLOSE Act, or any similar legislation, and never, ever vote for a Democrat version of cap and trade. And do this before the election. Doing so defines the meaning of "House Leadership." But please read on, there are other considerations.
I do not know why it is that Mike Castle is running 12 points or so ahead of his Democratic rival. It could be partly due to his despised RINOism, of course. And it's also due to personal characteristics which he alone possesses and cannot be transferred to O'Donnell -- like, as the state's only at-large Representative (the state has only one Rep.), he knows everyone in the state, has campaigned statewide nine times before. For whatever reason, the voters trust him, seem to like him. (Well, "like" as much as one can like a politician.)
For whatever reason, they've decided he's okay by them. And preferable to a Democrat. And so he polls 10-12 points ahead.
Meanwhile the latest Rasmussen poll puts O'Donnell ten points behind Coons.
And on that point, I ask, where is the plausible pathway to candidate growth? What is the realistic plan for getting O'Donnell up from ten points down to at least even?
Castle's Republican challenger is Christine O'Donnell. She is not a politician, but is a conservative activist. We have non-political activists running across the country, and that is a good thing, but this one is particularly problematic.
The other side of this is the GOP Fossils who are trying to denigrate O'Donnell and force her to drop out of the race, and are apparently paying people to "stalk her." From TheOtherMcCain:
Let me repeat the question I asked over the weekend: How many pro-life voters in Delaware? Castle’s pro-choice, O’Connell’s pro-life, and that life-or-death issue ought to be decisive in a GOP primary.
If the bottom line is O'Donnell cannot win (and polls are not always the last word) let's tell the Republican leadership to demand a few promises from Mike Castle or they will move to O'Donnell's camp.
In the video below, Christie says a vote for Castle is a vote for "smaller, smarter government." What? Even GovTrack shows Castle only barely Republican (see the graphic above). See Castle's past voting record, which sides with Democrats far more often than with Republicans. However GovTrack also says in the current Congress he has voted with Republicans 87.3% of the time. Sigh. I can't tell you how comfortable it is to live in a Conservative, very red state. See the Christie endorsement below.
Governor Chris Christie Endorses Mike Castle (video)
I love John Gibson and totally miss seeing him on Fox. Watch this video, dated August 12, 2010 on Islam and Somalia in Minnesota. By the way, the first of two Muslim U.S. Congressmen, Keith Ellison in Minnesota's 5th District has a constitutional conservative vying to take back Minnesota's House seat. Read about Joel Demos and donate to him if you can. Remember, politics are no longer local. Keith Ellison's far-left vote affects me and my family in Tulsa, Oklahoma and you and your family somewhere in Kansas or in the heart of Texas. After the video visit Mustang at Social Sense for a companion video by Glenn Beck a number of years ago. The problem just drones on.
John Gibson on Islam, Somalis and Sharia Law in Minnesota (video)
Dr. Donna Campbell, running for the U.S. House seat for Texas' 25th District, has won the Ten Buck Fridays poll for Week 7. Ten Buck Fridays is an effort of bloggers and readers to donate to very conservative candidates needing funds to keep their campaign going against a well-entrenched, and well-funded Democrat opponent. Whether you have participated before, or voted in the Week 7 poll, it doesn't matter. Just click the "donation" link below, use your credit card and donate what you can to help send Donna to Washington, D.C.
Donna Campbell
Dr Campbell is a Republican, an Emergency Room doctor, a wife and mother to four adopted daughters, who wants to unseat Democrat Lloyd Doggett, and represent the conservatives in District 25.
Doggett has been in the House since 1995 representing District 10 and currently District 25. Take a look at this video one year ago of protesters in Austin, Texas confronting Doggett and chanting 'Just say no' to the Obama health care legislation.
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