So Monday I’m out taking a new contract to the Title Company, dealing with a home inspection for a client, and spending a daddy day with my three year old while the other two boys were in school. Being a traditionalist, I generally don’t vote early believing that election day is a solemn occasion and the process of walking into the polling place and carrying out ones duty to choose our leadership should be a sacrosanct and special occasion.

Well, this year I made an exception. So many people are now voting early that election day has lost much of it’s traditional meaning. Besides, taking my three year old into the polls and voting in his presence would be educational for him and instill that sense of duty in him that I learned by going with my Dad to the polls.

So…I turn in my voter registration card and sign the register, and proceed to the voting machine. As I do so, I’m still struggling with the thought of voting for John, “Global Cap & Trade, Campaign Finance Reform, drilling in ANWR would be like drilling in the Everglades and the Grand Canyon, agents of intolerance, etc.” McCain.

I know I’ll get no end of grief for writing this but I’m being honest here and there is a point to be made which will please most of you when I get to the end of this.

I’ve spoken with the Constitution Party chairman of Texas and have struggled with the idea of casting a vote for Chuck Baldwin or Bob Bar as a protest since McCain will win Texas anyway and I asked the poll worker how to cast a write in vote for Baldwin since he’s registered as an official write in candidate. At this point I’m not committed to voting for Barr or Baldwin but want to know how in case I decide to. Normally I wouldn’t consider this under any circumstances and again I put up my Republican Credentials against anyone’s so spare me the ridicule. Yet McCain still gives me fits.

Anyway…so it goes…and I’m left alone with the decision finally at hand. All the arguments made by many here and elsewhere that “A non vote or a vote for a third party is a vote for Obama have never swayed me. I’ve always seen the simple common sense of that argument yet it’s never served as enough of a reason to vote for McCain. On the contrary, it’s always enraged me to the point where I’d be tempted to vote third party just out of spite. But again, this argument rings in my head…yet it doesn’t help with my decision.

So next I think about what McCain brings to the table…much of which I agree with. This has it’s appeal…but trust is a factor here in that his proclivity to compromise with my political enemies to show how reasonable he can be…all the while attacking me and his natural allies sticks in my craw and really stands in my way of a vote for McCain. His uncanny ability of timing his betrayal to times that causes maximum damage to the Republican brand and the conservative cause makes trust a serious issue with for me…and I just can’t bring myself to trust him.

So…what to do? While I still think a vote against Obama is compelling, it’s still not reason enough for me.  What I’m about to say is a direct appeal to those of you who struggle as I have with the nominee at the top of the ticket and have yet to vote. I’m begging you to do as I’ve done and vote for McCain/Palin.

I decided to vote Republican this time rather than send a message for one reason and one reason only. “SARAH PALIN”. The attacks on her from the elites in the Republican Party have served as a catharsis for me. THEY FEAR HER!

Brooks, Will, Parker, Noonan etc. see her as a threat…with good reason. I don’t have to list her conservative credentials for most of you and won’t bore you with it now…the thing that finally settled things for me as I voted last week is her genuine appeal to the grass roots of this Party. Nothing will equate to victory for this Party more than an appeal to the grass roots. It’s what was missing in 2006 and what was missing in the McCain campaign up until the convention.

I’m convinced that the elites in this party fear her because she represents the riff raff of this party that are ready to storm the ramparts with pitchforks and shovels and overthrow the elitists who have made this party a thin carbon copy of the Democrat Party. She’s a threat to the mediocrity that has infected this party at the highest level since the late 90s. She’ll shake this party to its core and shake off the bad fruit that have polluted its branches.

So…I’ve said all the above to say this to those of you like me that have struggled up till now:

Vote Republican at the top of the ticket…If you can’t in good conscience vote for McCain…Do it for Sarah! Do it for the future of this Party! Do it because she can rattle those that have betrayed us and will bring the grass roots of this party back to the table and will solidify us for the victories to come!

VOTE SARAH PALIN!

Originally published by Mike DeVine as Legal Editor for The Minority Report

Following the 1994 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, network anchors explained the historic event as one of "angry white males" having a childish temper tantrum. This election season, an overtly in the tank for liberal Democrats media is raising the spectre of anger incitement pre-emptively to thwart a Gov. Sarah Palin(R-AK) and Joe the Plumber inspired Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) energized base that threatens to overwhelm another leftist Democrat presidential nominee at the ballot box, or inspire an assassination.

The occasions for the present incarnation of evil right wingers have been isolated shoutings of "terrorist", "muslim" and/or "Arab" by hecklers at Palin rallies. (The Secret Service, after a review of campaign rallu audio tapes, debunked Obama's debate lie that someone shouted "kill him", which Palin heard but refused to denounce.) The media and Democrats have variously alleged that McCain campaign recitations of Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) past alliances with Weather Underground Marxist terrorist William Ayers, Black Muslim Louis Farrakhan and Kenyan Arab Odinga cousin Marxists are incitements, but has chosen not to feature the vile hecklers of Palin wearing obscenity words on T-Shirts and shouts of "warmonger" at McCain to suggest their lives are in danger.

But lets consider the drive-by media's "coverage" of angry words from angry white people directly associated with the Democratic Party leadership and the Obama campaign, shall we? (Obama and other authentically black definers frequently refer to the old Jim Crow "one drop rule" that classified any person as "Black" for legal purposes if they had at least 1/17th "negro blood" coursing through their veins. I apply that standard here for purposes of identifying angry whites.)

Consider how many of the following non-Secret Service refuted quotes could be considered incitements to violence; how many would not be known but for talk radio and the alternative media and how many have been credibly denounced, if denounced at all, by the Obama campaign:

1) Don't get snippy - Albert Gore

2) Selected not elected - all Democrats but Sen. Joe Lieberman and former Sen. Zell Miller, 24/7 for seven years and counting

3) [On 911] America's chickens coming home to roost - Rev. Jeremiah Wright

4) [On 911] I wish we (Weather Underground terrorist bombers) had done more - Ayers

5) Bushlied! (or cricket chirping silence) - all Democrats but Lieberman and Zell, 24/7 for five years and counting

6) He [President Bush] betrayed this country! He played on our fears! - Gore

7) Death of a President [movie depicting the assassination of President Bush]

8) America must stop air raiding villages and killing civilians in Afghanistan - Obama

9) Dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and never batted an eye - Wright

10) Compares American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot - Sen. Dick Durbin

11) Marines guilty of murder in Iraq - Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA)

12) American soldiers terrorize families in the dark of night - Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)

13) Abu Ghraib opened under new management - Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)

14) Hitler was a great man. Jews have a gutter religion. Obama is The Messiah - Louis Farrakhan (honored by Obama's church and always referred to with the honorific of "Minister" by Obama)

15) Israel will be wiped off the map - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

16) I would sit down with Ahmadinejad without preconditions - Obama

17) America is a down right mean country - Michelle Obama (may be an exception to the one drop rule, but we believe in affirmative action when identifying dangerous angry words that could incite violence)

18) Whites vote for Hillary in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia because they are bitter clingers to antipathy towards people that aren't not like them - Obama

19) God damned America. America invented AIDS to kill blacks in a world ruled by greedy white people. - Wright (to standing ovations at Obama's church)

20) Never been proud of America until 2008 - Michelle Obama

21) We need fundamental change in America. – Obama

Think any of the above could incite violence? The drive-bys aren’t interested.

Think Obama “clearly” doesn’t share the extremist views of his allies, as beltway conservative pundits George Will and Charles Krauthammer conclude? Clearly Obama does share the obvious conclusion of their anger, i.e. “fundamental change”, even if his rhetoric is delivered in a temperamentally calm manner.

And speaking of beltway conservatives:

22) Obama is a Mountain of strength that can't be moved - Brooks

23) Palin is a cancer on the GOP – Brooks

24) Problem that Republicans will have is that they will have a very angry base in 2009 and 2010, which isn’t the best way to attract [moderates]. – DaveG at race42008.com

25) I still don't know what [Palin] stands for. - Peggy Noonan

26) Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down [as Republican Vice-Presidential nominee]. - Kathleen Parker

And finally, this gem from Ross Douthat, who, along with Brooks, Kristol and other beltway conservatives, advocated a McCain nomination for eight years, yet now are a part of the defeatist chorus:

27) And if I were Hanson or Levin or Steyn I'd be devoting a little less time to ritual denunciations of heretics and RINOs, and at least a little more time to figuring out how to build the sort of ship that will make the rats of the DC/NY corridor want to scramble back on board, however much it makes you sick to have them back. Who knows? It might just be the sort of ship that swing-state voters will want to climb on board as well.

It seems that while the leftist whites plus Michelle are angry at all things American, conservative and Palin, many beltway moderate-conservative pundits see a Reaganite conservative Palin as cancerous, but not a "heretic"? Go figure.

Yet, they calmly insult the social conservatives and neo-cons with which Reagan, Newt and Dubya fashioned a winning three-legged stool, and so avoid the "angry" label?

Not here they don't. They presume unto themselves immunity from being labeled divisive within their echo chamber and yell foul when anyone defends the cancer.

What do these admittedly diverse pundit critics have in common, Douthat asks elsewhere seeking to establish credibility in diverse numbers? All of the right leaning critics are harsh critics of at least one aspect of Reaganism, whether its Brooks' social liberalism; Bruce Bartlett's foreign policy "realism" or Douthat's fiscal liberalism.

They find in Palin, Reagan re-born, and truth be known, the blue-blood country-clubber Rockefeller's never liked Reagan, resented the infusion of the yahoo Christians, and were content as a minority eating scraps from former Speaker Tip O'Neil's table.

So, we see double-barreled, unprompted, real anger by those on the right and the left that announce the Reagan Era over, against conservatives, and especially its most authentic vessel, the Governor of Alaska.

We see dour faces on the conservative beltway pundits except when they allow themselves to climb the Obama-Mountain and get carried away with the America needs fundamental change chanter/worshippers of Farrakhan's Messiah.

What do we see in Palin, and increasingly in McCain?

Optimism and Joy at what America has been, is and can be. We see a love for a God blessed America that, when given the opportunity to elect an unabashed, unapologetic conservative, does so every time with conservative Democrat votes, to boot, producing large majorities as the lukewarm independent rats the beltway pundits want to capture remain wallowing in the spew from God's and America's mouth.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice

Race 4 2008

"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson

OK...so there's always been this theory that there are many different planes of existence along the space time continuum. I now know this to be a fact!

What's that? How do I know? Well...I've lived all my life in a world where the Democrat Party was the party of government expansion and socialist engineering of everything from our social lives to the economy. In that other plane of existence it was the Republican Party that is the party of limited government. It's the Republican Party that opposes big government solutions for every social and economic ill.

Well, now I'm on a totally different plane. In the debates the other night, John Sydney McCain came out in favor of the Federal Government coming in and buying up homeowner mortgages, renegotiating the terms of the mortgage and selling the homes back to the mortgage holder at the lower property value that exists in that Market. As a commercial Real Estate agent...I can tell you what a nut brained idea that really is. Let's say the property values in a certain price range have fallen say 5% in value...You're a homeowner who has done every thing right...you've paid your bills you didn't over extend on your mortgage...you've been investing in your home and you've built up equity in this home. As things are...if nothing is done...in the short term, you will lose 5% of your equity and all will be well in a few short years after the market's have sorted themselves out. Then let's suppose the neighbors on either side of you are in danger of being foreclosed...so after the "Republican" candidate passes this idiocy, these neighbors go to the government and ask this new agency to bail them out and renegotiate their mortgage. So...along comes Billy Bureaucrat riding in on his white horse to save the day. Billy Bureaucrat does a study on the neighborhood and decides the market in your neighborhood hasn't fallen 5%...but has actually fallen 20%...Now...as I understand this...Billy Bureaucrat turns in a report and the government buys up the mortgages of your irresponsible neighbors. Then these homes are sold back to your neighbors at the new value...of course these mortgages are closed as any other sale is closed and the new bank liens are recorded with the appraisals and mortgage liens included. Guess what that does for the comparable sales of the homes in that neighborhood? Guess what just happened to the equity in your home...instead of the market sorting this out...and you losing 5% of the equity in your home...now you lose an additional 15% equity!

In this new plane of existence, it is Barack Obama, the Democrat candidate that opposes this socialist scheme! It is the Democrat that is taking the conservative position in this foolishness. In the old plane of existence, Obama is known as the most liberal Senator in the United States Senate. He is the Golden Child, The One, The Messiah to all those Socailist/Communist left wing fanatics who live to increase government intervention in our markets. In the other plane of existence, Barry, (as he's derisively called by the Republican Party) is the candidate of the left.

Well...here I am...in the new plane...McCain is for this crazy scheme, and Barry is against it. In this plane, the Democrat politician is taking the most popular, (conservative) position in the polls against this scheme...and it is the Republican candidate that is pushing for a socialist takeover of the mortgage market against the will of the American electorate according to all the polls on this subject. It is John Sydney McCain who want's to put the Washington Bureaucracy in charge of choosing winners and losers in the real estate market!

You know what...maybe in this plane of existence, Congressman James Trafficant is still in the Congress in stead of cooling his heels in the federal pen...In that case..."BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!".

In the aftermath of the failures of hope, change, messiah impersonations and lipstick on pigs, the Obama campaign has decided to re-cast The One as The Gipper by asking America this question :

“Are you better off now than you were four or eight years ago?”

Before venturing into StephC’s (aka hillbilly) cornucopia of wisdom (in blockquotes below) that re-frames the better question of When did we stop being better off?, let’s look at the domestic and foreign political landscape of 1980 when Ronaldus Magnus first posed his four-year question to the incumbent president.

The Democratic Party had held congress for the previous 16 years and the White House for the previous four. This is key, so remember it.

The Congress had abandoned the anti-communist South Vietnamese army while they were winning the war an almost impeached republican president had turned around before resigning over an unauthorized third rate burglary he covered up. President Carter turned loose the Islamic and Communist, dawgs from Hell in Tehran and Afghanistan, respectively, with his recitations of our “inordinate fear of communism” and the Ayatollah Khomeini was “a religious man I can work with” as he abandoned the Shah. Soviet tanks rolled unencumbered by any fear they would be checked by any action save for less RSVPs for track meets.

A new economic statistic called the “misery index” had to be invented to fully translate what is still the worst economic recession since the Great Depression. Interest rates and inflation were mean 20% while unemployment neared 105. And Joe Biden was around to support moratoriums and/or regulations that have prevented the building of any new nuclear power or oil refinery plants and which have prevented the expansion of areas available for oil/natural gas on US soil of offshore since 1978.

Since Obama was only 12-15 years old when Democrats committed the above crimes against the United States, he is able to commune with them in good conscious.

Fast forward to present day (post defeat of the USSR by Republicans and a few Dem boll weevils in the Cold War) America and its near full employment and low interest rates; a decimated al Qaeda with terrorists fleeing defeat in a post three elections Iraq; and Roberts and Alito on a Supreme Court one vote shy of ending the slaughter of small human beings in the millions.

Eight years ago, faced with a tech bubble hangover from the Clinton years, President Bush and a Republican Congress passed tax rate cuts that nipped that recession in the bud and prevented one following the attacks of September 11th. After suffering multiple terrorist attacks in the 1990s, there has been no successful terrorist attack on American soil since that fateful day seven years ago.

No thanks to Democrats in Congress, including Obama and Biden. And even Hillary voted against funds for the troops and called General Petraeus a liar. Remember that “liar” word, for it weighs heavy on the ways in which hillbilly Steph describes when we stated to be worse off.

And while Democrats can claim no credit for the economic prosperity of this decade that has overall and minority homeownership still at record levels nor for the success of the surge that has overall victory in Iraq in sight, they sure do own most of the blame for our problems that have so many worse off.

Democrats who stopped expanded oil drilling/nuclear-oil refinery plant construction from 1980-2000 via Speakers Tip O’Neil and Jim Wright and President Clinton, have defeated all of President Bush’s attempts to revive same staring in 2001 thanks to Senate Majority Leader Daschle, Minority Leader Reid via filibusters, and Speaker Pelosi, the later despite extreme suffering by low-income families and all businesses that threatens the health of our economy.

It is Democrat created Maes (Fannie and Freddie) that are crumbling under the rubble of a credit/housing crunch partially caused by Democrat legislation and liberal court decisions that make lenders fear lawsuits for race discrimination if they don’t lend to credit challenged borrowers.

So, even before Hurricanes Katrina and Ike devastated the Gulf, Hurricane Jack A*s kicked America in the teeth. In 2004, America rejected Tornado Kerry that spun off the Jack A*s. I will let StephC pick things up from there re:

1) Bushlied

In October of 2004, just a month before the elections, here came the meme, “Bush Lied, People Died.” If he did, so did Clinton and every member of Congress who stood for the war in Iraq but we’re not supposed to remember that. Kerry was getting stomped during the campaigning in spite of women drooling over him. They had to do something and this something was the precursor to the nation not being better off.

With yet another contested election to face, the Democrats also said they don’t recognize Bush as president. They continued the mantra of “Bush Lied, People Died” yet in spite of all the calls to impeach both Bush and Cheney, that’s all the Democrats had because they were the minority in Congress. In 2005, they ramped up the rhetoric against Bush and threw Cheney in as well and along came Katrina which created the perfect storm against Bush and Cheney.

2) Katrina

We all took an economic hit from Katrina. Gas prices soared because of the damage to wells in the Gulf, which had the domino effect of prices for everything going up. Money was tighter and we were still in the long war so the “Bush Lied, People Died” mantra worked in this gloomy scenario aided by the disaster that was Katrina. This couldn’t be helped and by the time prices were at pre-Katrina levels, it was too late.

Another by-product of Katrina was a greater amount of illegal immigration as they saw an opportunity to make loads of money and came in droves to fill up labor and construction jobs on the Gulf. Illegal immigration has always been something of a problem, even more so after 9/11, but Katrina was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak.

We couldn’t absorb them into other jobs and the economic hit from having to deal with them on top of everything else just added to the Democrats’ gleeful meme of doom and gloom, although at the time the illegal aliens weren’t identified publicly as a big problem. I know this because my husband, being in construction was discussing with his boss whether they would be sending anyone to the Gulf to help with clean up when suddenly they were all told, they weren’t needed because crews were coming from Mexico. They came to make some quick money, but then, they stayed.

3) Democrats control Congress for last two years

The Democrats win Congress with their memes and that’s the turning point towards South. In the early months we didn’t see a lot of difference except for the fight against wholesale amnesty for untold numbers of illegal aliens. But then, Al Gore won an Oscar for his Global Warming scam which has profited him and anyone in it the scam with him but no one else. States raised taxes and the only real legislation that Congress has done in the last almost two full years, now, is mandates for ethanol and a host of other environmental indignities that have done nothing but take money out of our pockets because the price of basic foods went through the roof at an enormous pace. In addition, global demand for oil has risen as China has entered the global economy as a major player. So, gas prices go up as ever slave to the law of supply and demand.

While global warming mandates had already brought about a price increase in basic foodstuffs, also tied to the law of supply and demand, the increase in fuel prices made a bad situation worse. By the way, they still haven’t impeached Bush and Cheney and there’s a good reason why. It might make a good campaign slogan but there’s not much meat in it and that’s all they have. Impeachment hearings would bring out the fact that they all saw the same intelligence that Bush had and also the fact that 4 of the 5 components which Saddam was accused of possessing were found. Instead of wondering where the 5th component went to, it was more politically expedient to say Bush lied.

Oh, and gasoline isn’t the only thing that comes from a barrel of oil. Nor diesel. Something we take for granted every day comes from those barrels of oil: plastics. Everything we use on a daily basis has some plastic parts attached to it: home and cell phones, household appliances, computers, the knobs on your kitchen stove, and more. Some fabrics are made with nylon, a byproduct of oil as well. Vaseline is called petroleum jelly in its generic name… key word: petroleum. Some cosmetics are made using petroleum jelly as the base. And more. In short, there is no such creature as oil independence. There’s nothing to replace it in all its forms.

And Congress’ more open government? Well, since the Democratic majority, Congress has attempted to slip through all sorts of legislation without informing the public about what they’re doing and have subjected the other side of the aisle to indignities of all kinds, yet, complain about partisanship. Earmarks that were considered out of control before are now the norm. Between entitlements and earmarks we’re bankrupting the country and that’s a fact. And the Democrats promise more of the same. I read somewhere or heard somewhere that for every dollar put in for subsidized health care only 4 cents of it is actually spent on the health care.

That’s something for you proponents of government universal healthcare to think about. It may be expensive now but the government is going to give you only 4% of what you pay in. You may well find entire paychecks swallowed into universal healthcare at which point many will wonder why they work at all.

So, our government has thrown us into the global warming scam which has trapped us financially and ramped up earmarks, besides. They have passed legislation to bail out banks and mortgage companies who made bad business decisions. Case in point, Bank of America, which decided sometime early last year they were going to extend credit to illegal aliens. Those illegal aliens don’t have the same obligations that ordinary citizens do and just walked away from those obligations and left the rest of us to foot the bill. But Congress has the answer!!! Bail them out and let one of the bailees write the legislation.

So, Barack, you may try and jip the Gip, but I doubt you will be heard above the dins of your 20-year pew-parked in a Hate Whitey America Church while living in a house bought with funds from Saddam’s regime via Chicago Way Felon Rezko and a political career launched with Chicago Way Felon Unrepentant Terrorist Ayers.

You and Biden are part and parcel of the reasons we started to get worse off with your bushlied, terrorists rights bills that seek to handcuff the Commander in Chief in intelligence gathering and opposition to victory in Iraq.

I suspect that your impersonation of Reagan will fall as flat as your Jesus mime. But I know one or two characters that you could successfully mimic:

George McGovern and Michael Dukakis.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns

Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” - The Chief Justice

Race 4 2008

“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson

I read the Following article at Politico and just had to reply: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html (Why the media should apologize)

I thought this was a joke at the beginning of the column. I thought it was a parody of the Leftist arguments in defense of their despicable treatment of Governor Palin. It turns out it’s a juvenile and amateurish attempt at a serious response to Republican complaints of desperate attacks on Governor Palin by the so called “objective media”.

Sadly, it is a textbook example of obfuscation and straw man arguments that attempts to answer arguments from critics that have never been made by a slavish press who has sold it’s soul to the Obama Campaign.

First off…the straw man. “Republicans are saying the press shouldn’t ask questions about, ’who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?’”

We’ve made no such arguments…particularly concerning the first three questions…I want to hear more from the so called “Objective Press” on these questions and would applaud such discussion.

Where questions about her experience are concerned…I’d also like to apply the same question to the person who is running for the #1 position on the Democrat Ticket as opposed to the person who is running for the # 2 position on the Republican Ticket.

Since the press has finally acknowledged that experience does indeed matter and Governor Palin is disqualified due to inexperience because she’s a heartbeat away from being President…Why isn’t it being asked if a person with, at best, no more experience than Governor Palin is qualified not only to be a heartbeat away…but to in fact be President?

The case is that much stronger if you consider the type of experience of both candidates since the person running for #2 has been an executive when the person running for #1 has not! So by all means Mr. Simon…ask the questions but please apply the same standards to both Tickets.

As to whether you should have “stuck to the warm, human interest stuff” about Governor Palin? Well…where are they?

There have been no end of human interest stories about Barack Obama for over a year. Governor Palin has an interesting story. Several bylines could be followed but we don’t see a single one….yet we’ve been spoon fed stories about Barack Obama’s bio and the swooning of followers at his rallies since before this campaign began.

Then Simon fills out the rest of his childish rant with the following straw man rhetorical questions:

Simon: “…we should have stuck to the press release stuff like how she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (after she supported it).”

Well, yeah…you should have…I don’t like what it says about the Governor…and I believe her explanation for why it worked out that way…but it’s a legitimate story and completely within bounds. NO Republican that I’ve heard has objected to this question or about her accepting contributions from Stevens cronies when she ran for Lt Governor. ( I note Mr. Simon is apparently too uninformed to ask that question in this piece) But Simon and the “so called Objective Press” aren’t asking those questions…they’re parroting the KOS Clowns questions about who’s been pregnant with what baby!

From Simon: “…we should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: “Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. … Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints.”

Uh Huh….you should absolutely be going after these stories because they are legitimate. I haven’t heard a single Republican complain about these stories being told, maybe because there are so few of them…though we have complained that the so called “Objective Press” has never pointed out who was bringing forth these charges and initiating these investigation

At risk of sounding petty, I’ll point out the press never fails to provide cover for high profile Democrats by pointing out those who’ve made any charge against a Democrat as “disgruntled former employees” or “members of the right wing attack machine”…All we’d ask is a little balance…and the same details for our candidates...but never mind….we’re used to it…we can take it.

Oh…and it might be a good idea to look into the Mob connected politics in Chicago and the largess heaped upon Barack Obama by the convicted felon Tony Rezco…his ties to Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Luis Farrakhan to balance things out…but we won’t hold our breath Mr. Simon.

Finally…the crybaby snit Simon get’s in that we think the candidate’s family should be out of bounds.

First off…The biggest thing that burns Republican britches is the question being asked repeatedly by the so called “Objective Press” if Governor Palin can be an effective mother and VP at the same time.

Would Mr. Simon ask the same question were this a Democrat Candidate for VP? Isn’t that a little presumptuous and a snide question to be asked by the Cocktail circuit? Should she be staying home and baking cookies? What would Mr. Simon’s reaction be if this were a question being asked of a successful Democrat woman by Rush Limbaugh…Hmmm? I’m guessing one could likely peruse his earlier ramblings in print and find out!

Secondly…Mr. Simon and the tea sipping, raised pinky crowd have been arguing for months that Michelle Obama should be off limits even though she’s been out there in public…making speeches and controversial statements. But now Governor Palin’s Husband is fair game for a 22 year old DUI charge when he’s stayed out of the public eye and avoided the campaign trail.

On top of that…a 17 year old girl get’s pregnant and the Press has seen fit to question Governor Palin’s effectiveness as a mother when I doubt very seriously she encouraged her daughter to go out and engage in premarital sex!

Oh…and they ran with reports on 9/3/2008 that Governor Palin has been in an extra marital affair with no substantiation, and questioned how effective she could be as VP as the mother of a special needs child…and so on and so on…

Add to that the fact that Governor Palin’s phone number and social security numbers have been leaked to the press and distributed in the leftist blogosphere and I think we can make a good case why we’re so DXXXED ticked off at the behavior of the press this last week!

Well Mr. Simon…Id compliment you for your excellent writing and reasoning skills if you had any….but I can’t find a good reason to. Frankly it irritates me to no end that such an intellectual lightweight can, not only, make a career out of writing this vapid and empty drivel but continuously be invited around the talk show circuit to display your inferior wit and insights!

As for making the case you attempt in this article…good luck with that…if this is all the formerly great “Objective Press” can come up with…Republicans should have a grand time all the way up to inauguration day!

Have you ever wondered where all those RINOs go to scheme and subvert the goals of Conservatives in the Republican Party and how they maintain "Centrist", (read Liberal), control of a center right party? Ever wonder what ever happened to the Gingrich Revolution when the GOP stormed Washington and gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years? Have you ever wanted to know why we weren’t able to complete the Contract with America or how the losses of 2006 were engineered and who engineered them?

Well...look no farther. I stumbled upon The Republican Main Street Project while researching information for another article.

I've heard of the Republican Main Street Project but never paid any attention to who they were or what they were about over the years since the Republican sweeps in the 1994 elections. Well...Today I got an answer to that and many questions I've asked myself since 1994.

From their Web Site:

"The November 1994 mid-term elections were commonly referred to as the "Republican Revolution." Given the great gains made by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, a group of moderate House Republicans began informal meetings to discuss ways to further a centrist, pragmatic Republican agenda -- one that could accommodate bipartisan legislative results. At that time, there was great concern that a dramatic shift to the right was quickly approaching, given the new congressional leadership. The discussion group began to craft a moderate Republican agenda with a fiscally conservative background.

What began as a congressional discussion group started by Reps. Nancy Johnson, Steve Gunderson and Fred Upton has evolved into a national gathering of leaders from government, business and education who share a commitment to conservative, pragmatic approaches to business in a global context; to compassion in our communities and character in our national leaders.

Many of the original participants are now leaders of Main Street. The Chairman of the Board is John "Jock" McKernan, a former member of Congress, and two-term Governor of Maine. An original founder of the Partnership is former Rep. Amo Houghton of New York, who is the only former corporate CEO of a Fortune 500 company to have served in the House of Representatives.....

Addressing a broad spectrum of issues, the Partnership reaches out to disenfranchised Republicans-- people who are distressed by the stridency too-often associated with the Party, and to others attracted by a thoughtful, centrist approach to Republican politics. The Partnership demonstrates inclusion, respect, reason and compassion.

In the words of Gov. McKernan, the message of the Partnership is "one of quiet diplomacy, rather than wedge politics."

Say what? "Given the great gains made by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate" These guys, by their own words, written on their own web site, were so overcome by a "great concern that a dramatic shift to the right was quickly approaching, given the new congressional leadership" that they formed an organization of RINOS to undercut and subvert everything that had been done by grass roots activists, (what the preamble to the Constitution calls “We The People”), to return this government to sanity!

You got it...we returned the Congress to Republican Rule for the first time in 40 years, and they couldn't stand it! How dare we stand up for anything and how dare we steal the Congress from its rightful owners in the Democrat Party?

To add insult to injury, they want to "bring in people who are distressed by the stridency too-often associated with the Party, and to others attracted by a thoughtful, centrist approach to Republican politics. The Partnership demonstrates inclusion, respect, reason and compassion"?

As opposed to those strident un-thoughtful non-inclusive, disrespectful, unreasoning and uncompassionate knuckle dragging Neanderthals who call themselves Conservatives?

Who are these RINOS who have taken it upon themselves to stomp out the uneducated and ignorant cavemen on the right who would dare to win elections for the Republican Party?

Let's begin with the most high profile and most recognized name among the many who have subverted our Party to their way of doing things.

Let me introduce to you all, John Sydney McCain!

What's that you ask? That foot soldier of the Reagan Revolution? Yup...That would be him...Foot soldier my ample rear end.. Our boy John happened to be around when Reagan swept us to victory the same way he was around when Newt Gingrich brought us to power...so that makes him a soldier in the Reagan Revolution?

Well, Imagine that.

I'll add a list of the rest of these squishes from their web site after I've said the following:

Hey Main Street Project and the RINOS you represent!!!

 This is our Party. WE'VE done the work to put this Party in the majority. In fact WE did something that hadn’t been done in 60 to 80 years and that was to return all three branches of this government to Republican Control…WE walked the streets. WE manned the phone banks. WE knocked on doors and passed out literature across this great country. WE gave our hard earned dollars to see you all in the majority!

The Republican Party is a big tent…but it is OUR tent! WE built it. You are welcome to come in, in fact WE invited you in and did all the things I mentioned and put you in office. But you have NO RIGHT to freeze out the very people who not only invited you in...but have given you a position of prominence for far too long! So how did you return our hospitality? I think 2006 and the crushing landslide facing us in 2008 speaks for its self!

Conservatives, Fredheads and SoCons need to sit up and take note. Copy this list of RINOS and post it where you will see it every day. Put it on your mirror where you will see it every morning. Post it in your office so you will see it all day long. Put it on your night stand and memorize the names of these treasonous pit vipers before you go to sleep and keep your powder dry. Whether McCain wins this election or not...one thing needs to be taken to heart by all of us...there are already RINO incumbents losing primary battles across this country in 2008 and many more lost in 2006 in primaries and the general election because Conservatives stayed home...We need to have challengers to each and every member of the “Main Street Project” and work our behinds off to send them to their K street Cronies and give the power we can provide them to someone more deserving!

The bloodletting has already begun and I hope to tell you all about what I and my ILK have planned in the years to come if we can make it work...We will be counting on you to pick up your pitchforks and clubs and storm the RINO’s Ivory ramparts in the elections to come. Let your rage and indignation boil and let the blue blood flow across the Ivory Towers of our RINO masters and LET FREEDOM RING!!

Let this be a beginning...In the spirit of our maverick leader let us resolve here and now to join together and repay this treacherous organization and those it represents for it's treachery and return; blow for blow, it's strikes at the hearts Conservatives across this country       !

U.S. Senate

Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota      

Sen. Susan Collins, Maine      

Sen. John McCain, Arizona      

Sen. Gordon Smith, Oregon      

Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania

U.S. House

Rep. Judy Biggert, Illinois

Rep. Brian Bilbray, California

Rep. Mary Bono, California

Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, Florida

Rep. Ken Calvert, California

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia

Rep. Michael Castle, Delaware

Rep. Thomas Davis, III, Virginia

Rep. Charlie Dent, Pennsylvania

Rep. David Dreier, California

Rep. Vernon Ehlers, Michigan

Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, Missouri

Rep. Phil English, Pennsylvania

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey

Rep. Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania

Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, Maryland

Rep. David Hobson, Ohio

Rep. Timothy Johnson, Illinois

Rep. Mark Kirk, Illinois

Rep. John R. Kuhl, New York

Rep. Ray LaHood, Illinois

Rep. Steven LaTourette, Ohio

Rep. Jerry Lewis, California

Rep. Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey

Rep. Jim McCrery, Louisiana

Rep. Thomas Petri, Wisconsin

Rep. Todd Platts, Pennsylvania

Rep. Jon Porter, Nevada

Rep. Deborah Pryce, Ohio

Rep. Jim Ramstad, Minnesota

Rep. Ralph Regula, Ohio

Rep. Dave Reichert, Washington

Rep. Jim Saxton, New Jersey

Rep. Christopher Shays, Connecticut

Rep. Patrick Tiberi, Ohio

Rep. Michael Turner, Ohio

Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan

Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon

Rep. James Walsh, New York

Rep. Jerry Weller, Illinois
Rep. Heather Wilson, New Mexico

Governors

Gov. Linda Lingle, Hawaii

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California