Mark Noonan fo Blogs4Bush has this to say about the Dem’s prospects in the upcoming mid-term election:
Being against the other side gets the strong partisans of your Party to support you – but that, in most areas of the country, only gets you to about 35 or 40% of the vote. To get up to that magical 50%, you have to give people a reason to vote for you – in 2006, the Democrats have offered nothing remotely like a positive agenda. They’ve put out some issue papers, but they may as well not exist for all the time Democrats spend pushing them. We might, at times, get a ritualistic, “we’ll increase the minimum wage”, but after the briefest exposition of Democratic plans, it is right in to ripping President Bush to shreds. Hatred makes quite a splash, but it is love which really gets things going – and the Democrats are fresh out of love. Vitriol is all they’ve got, and they’re going to choke on it.
As more Americans think about what is really at stake in this election in the next few weeks (when most Americans start paying attention) they will realize, I believe, that the only issue that matters right now is who can better protect and defend America from terrorist attacks. Those Americans are better known as “values voters” who are concerned first and foremost with the security of our great nation. Above all I believe that they value personal liberty and freedom, and in spite of their misgivings about the current GOP Congress and President Bush with regards to spending, illegal immigration, and the way we are fighting the WOT,at the end of the day, they will vote for the party better able to defend our nation from the Jihadists who seek to destroy us.
Regardless of the polls, I believe that the GOP will tighten up their message and remind voters that Democrats, who don’t think twice about divulging our top secret highly classified intelligence to our enemies for political gain, cannot be trusted on national security. Try as they might to supress voter turnout among “values” conservatives with the politically motivated and timed Foley scandal, I believe that grass roots conservatives are more motivated than ever to ensure that the GOP controls Congress.
Our friend John at Powerline had this to say:
Republicans are clearly resurgent, with signs everywhere that momentum in the campaign has subtly begun to shift their way. I think the Democrats’ decision to avoid taking clear positions, and run on a platform of negativity that often amounts to hate, is a key reason why.
We’ll see in a few weeks. I am bullish!
Gregg
Last Sunday, we spent a fascinating hour with Sam Harris discussing his book Letter to a Christian Nation. This Sunday, Sam has an op-ed in the Boston Globe,
Bad reasons to be good
By Sam Harris
THE MIDTERM elections are fast approaching, and their outcome could well be determined by the “moral values” of conservative Christians. While this possibility is regularly bemoaned by liberals, the link between religion and morality in our public life is almost never questioned. One of the most common justifications one hears for religious faith, from all points on the political spectrum, is that it provides a necessary framework for moral behavior. Most Americans appear to believe that without faith in God, we would have no durable reasons to treat one another well. The political version of this morality claim is that our country was founded on “Judeo-Christian principles,” the implication being that without these principles we would have no way to write just laws.
It is, of course, taboo to criticize a person’s religious beliefs. The problem, however, is that much of what people believe in the name of religion is intrinsically divisive, unreasonable, and incompatible with genuine morality.
The full article is here.
Tonight we will take a look at the election season, locally and nationally. There are only two weeks remaining and things are getting interesting.
7pm EST: We had another useless debate this week. Kerry Healey stayed negative and drove Deval’s negatives up, along with her own. I’d like to hear from someone tonight who wants to defend this,
`Inmates’ take protests to Patrick
Demonstrators rally outside home of candidate, his campaign manager
About a half-dozen demonstrators showed up at Patrick’s home in Milton at about 7 a.m., dressed to appear like inmates and brandishing placards mocking him as a coddler of criminals, according to Patrick’s campaign. At about the same time, two people wearing orange jump suits appeared at the Abington residence of his campaign manager, John Walsh.
Walsh’s 12-year-old son, who was home alone preparing to catch his school bus, called his father, who had left for work. Walsh’s wife, Donna, who was also on her way to work, became concerned about her son and called Abington police to go the house. Police say the pair left by the time officers arrived.
“It was certainly disruptive to the neighborhood,” said Chief Dave Majenski, who confirmed that a group “dressed in prison-type garb” were demonstrating in front of the Walsh house.
Negative ads against Deval are one thing. He has taken some obscene positions with regard to Ben Leguire, the eloquent rapist. I don’t even have a problem with the orange jumpsuit stunt outside the debate, politics is theater after all. But taking this to the private homes of the candidate and campaign manager, that is too much. Would Healey welcome this kind of stunt in Prides Crossing? I don’t think so.
8pm EST: We welcome back the blogosphere’s leading election season analyst, Tom Bevan from the invaluable Real Clear Politics. Tom joined us a month ago, tonight we will see how much things have changed. Are the Democrats getting ahead of themselves?
Carried Away by Talk of a ‘Wave’
By Tom Bevan
Dire. Bleak. Grim. Those are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe the election prospects of Republicans just 18 days from now. So is it really that bad for the elephants this year? The answer is “yes” – and “no.”
At 9pm EST, Blackfive’s Someone You Should Know, our weekly collaboration to bring the inspirational true stories of the men and women fighting for us around the world to the radio.
We also will be discussing CNN’s decision to air video handed to them by Al Qaeda in Iraq showing snipers killing American soldiers. CNN thought long and hard about it, and decided to air the video.
The bottom line for Matt from Blackfive, “CNN knowingly plays into the hands of the enemy.”
Hard to argue with that, especially in comparison to what NBC News did this week, a similar segment about the snipers in Iraq targeting our troops. NBC provided detail and analysis, without using footage of Americans being killed.
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Via Newsbusters Blog One of the premier blogs out there has this story:
As reported Friday, a Democrat staffer was suspended last week over possibly being the source of the recently leaked National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times. New reports from the Los Angeles Times and Fox News identified the name of the staffer in question, and that he has ties to Rep. Jane Harman (D-California) who expressed such outrage over the incident (hat tip to Michelle Malkin):
This has been virtually ignored by the impartial elite media who have been too busy gay bashing Rep. Foley and disseminating out false stories about the Iraq death toll to sour public opinion and support for the war and by extension Bush and the GOP.
Thank God the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Peter Hoekstra (R-Michigan) who is apparently fed up with all the leaks coming out of Congress, sent a letter to Harmanâ??s office addressing such concerns:
“It has become clear to me, by your continuing and unauthorized releases of information received and maintained by the Committee, that Democrats are not willing to protect committee information, and that you are politicizing intelligence for purposes not reflecting national security values.”
Time and time again Dems have been willing to risk national security by exposing top secret classified national security info for political gain. Americans know this and that is why the GOP will maintain majorities in both Houses of Congress Nov. 7th.
knowthyfactsnotthyneighbors blog has this story of a Virginia man who has allegedly been fired from his job for supporting a state ballot initiative defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The man Luis Padilla has been denied reinstatemet by his employer who fired him Cagill Foods who stated of Padilla:
Cargill is not required to allow Mr. Padilla to impose his beliefs on his co-workers.
To which Victoria Cobb, executive director of the Family Foundation, says:
Cargill is engaging in viewpoint discrimination. We are seeing something that is starting to happen across America and even here in Virginia, where political correctness has run amok. That’s the simplest way to put it,” says Cobb. “The legal letter that we have received back from Cargill’s legal department has basically said that they have these ‘Valuing Differences’ initiatives and they have this ‘Everyone Matters’ policy; and yet, apparently, Mr. Padilla’s views are not respected.”
Regardless of where one stands on this issue I think this story should alarm anybody concerned about our rapidly diminishing 1st Amendment.
I readily concur with Cobb’s analysis:
“It is abundantly clear that those who seek to impose same-sex ‘marriage’ on society are not at all interested in tolerance of other viewpoints,” says Cobb in a press release. “And they are willing to go so far as to destroy a man’s family and take his livelihood to get their way.”
New York Times
Hillary, Not as in the Mount Everest Guy
By DANNY HAKIM
October 17, 2006
For more than a decade, one piece of Senator Hillary Rodham Clintonâ??s informal biography has been that she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest. The story was even recounted in Bill Clintonâ??s autobiography.
Just one problem, it’s not true. It was, and has always been, a bold faced lie. Sir Edmund climbed Everest six years after Hillary was born. Of course, that didn’t stop her from telling it, or her husband from publishing it only a couple of years ago. Her excuse was Classically Clintonian,
“It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter,” said her office.
Ah. She was just showing loyalty to her mother’s tender efforts to ignite dreams in a daughter oppressed by patriarchy and pervasive gender bias. (A less sweet way of seeing it: Mama lied, I didn’t!)
What I am waiting for is Hillary to explain her stroke of good fortune in the commodity pits, perhaps the most difficult market of all to make money in. You may recall, Hillary turned $1000 into $100,000 in ten short months by selling cattle futures. She is after all, the smartest women in America.
Hillary Clinton Futures Trades Detailed
By Charles R. Babcock
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 27, 1994; Page A01
Hillary Rodham Clinton was allowed to order 10 cattle futures contracts, normally a $12,000 investment, in her first commodity trade in 1978 although she had only $1,000 in her account at the time, according to trade records the White House released yesterday.
The computerized records of her trades, which the White House obtained from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, show for the first time how she was able to turn her initial investment into $6,300 overnight. In about 10 months of trading, she made nearly $100,000, relying heavily on advice from her friend James B. Blair, an experienced futures trader.
Hillary Clinton has said she made all the trading decisions herself and has tried to play down Blair’s role. But she acknowledged in April, three weeks after her trades were first disclosed, that Blair actually placed most of the trades.
This Caroline Baum article from 1995 in National Review has tons more detail about how absurd and implausable this is.
Next Up: I never knew Bill was sleeping around.
More good news for Gregg’s book Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies. It is among the “Featured Selections” and now available in hard cover through the Conservative Book Club.
Gregg is in some pretty good company in the “Featured Selections” joining Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz, Michael Crichton, Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and Bill Gertz.
And just in time for the Christmas shopping season.:)
Congratulations Gregg.