• Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin Preparing for 2012? You Betcha

    Sarah singing along to the Gretchen Wilson song “Redneck Woman” at the 10/26/08 Asheville, NC rally

    Is Sarah Palin preparing for a run for the GOP Presidential nomination in 2012?

    YOU BETCHA

    Unless there is a skeleton in the closet that someone has not VETTED about Sarah Palin, Flap sees a clear path to the GOP Presidential nomination in 2012. (Assuming that John McCain either does not win next Tuesday or wins and decides NOT to run for re-election)

    Who will be her rivals?

    Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee? Both retreads from this year’s cycle?

    Tim Pawlenty and Haley Barbour? Newcomers on the national Presidential scene with ONLY regional appeal?

    The early GOP primaries are a fit for Sarah Palin: Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The other candidates would divide up the votes while the Evangelicals and conservatives would all vote for Palin. Palin wins with early momentum going into Super Tuesday.

    Exit Question: What does Sarah Palin need to do in the next year (should she not be elected Vice President which is increasingly unlikely) to increase her GOP bonafides?


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  • Barack Obama,  Democrats

    The Coming Second Bill of Rights Under President Obama

    Second Bill of Rights

    The Second Bill of Rights

    Mark Steyn has put his finger on the pulse again.

    Re Sunstein, Obama and Euro-style rights, they may be here sooner than you think:

    Senator Obama’s call for a middle-class rescue plan comes a day after The Blade published a Page 1 open letter to the candidate welcoming him to Toledo and inviting him to endorse a ‘Second Bill of Rights’ that includes Americans’ right to a job where they live.

    Mr. Obama responded to The Blade’s question by agreeing that every American willing to work should be able to find a job at a living wage. But he stopped short of accepting that as a right.

    U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D. Toledo) whipped the crowd up before Mr. Obama took the stage yesterday telling them that America needed a Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, health care, homes, an education, and a fair playing field for business and farmers.

    With a possible Super Majority in the Congress, the Democrats can and will push their LEFT agenda.

    Count on it……


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  • Sarah Palin

    Shocker: Sarah Palin HANGED in West Hollywood – NOT a Hate Crime

    A mannequin hanging from a home in West Hollywood has been outfitted to look like Governor Sarah Palin.

    The Los Angeles Times reports: Effigy of Sarah Palin hanging by a noose creates uproar in West Hollywood
    Los Angeles sheriff’s officials say the Halloween display isn’t a hate crime. Authorities are keeping an eye on the house to make sure the situation doesn’t get out of hand.

    A West Hollywood Halloween display showing a likeness of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging by a noose has caused a furor among some residents who reported it as a hate crime, authorities said Monday.

    But Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said the mannequin sporting a beehive hairdo, glasses and a red coat does not rise to the level of a hate crime because it was part of a Halloween display.

    “I’m not defending this; I’m not criticizing it. It doesn’t rise to the level of hate crime,” said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, who said he went out to the house himself to look at the display this morning.

    “Now, if there was a crime against bad taste . . . “

    Sgt. Kristin Aloma of the Sheriff’s Department’s West Hollywood station said that since Sunday she had received five to 10 calls from residents offended by the display. Officials are monitoring the house to make sure the situation doesn’t get out of hand, she said.

    Certainly, this display is NOT a hate crime even though the gay idiots who thought the display was art are MORONS.

    The Secret Service is reportedly investigating but that is perfunctory.

    Flap is positive that the gay community in West Hollywood with an important vote on gay marriage – California Proposition 8 –  coming up in a week would have preferred less focus on their communities’ hatred of Sarah Palin and John McCain. The Mayor of West Hollywood has strongly objected to the display.

    Also, interesting will be whether the MSM will cover the annual West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval and how many men will be dressed as Sarah Palin?

    Flap bets you don’t see much coverage this year.


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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Gay Marriage

    Where is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in California Proposition 8 – Gay Marriage Fight? Wife Maria Shriver Opposes

    In an appearance at the 2008 Log Cabin Republicans National Convention in San Diego, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) pledges to fight a proposed anti-gay marriage amendment.

    Andrew Sullivan is going to have to continue to bitch and moan about California Governor Arnold  Schwarzenegger NOT doing enough to defeat California’s Proposition 8 Protect Traditional Marriage Consitutional amendment.

    But, Arnold’s wife, Maria Shriver of the Kennedy clan has come out to oppose Proposition 8.

    California’s First Lady Maria Shriver said she will vote against a ballot measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would end same-sex marriage in the state.

    “I’m voting NO on Prop 8,” Shriver said in an interview broadcast Sunday on Los Angeles television station KNBC’s “Channel 4 News Conference,” a public service program. “I believe in a people’s right to choose a partner that they love.”

    Her husband, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been largely silent on the proposed constitutional amendment since he announced in April that “I will always be there to fight” against the measure.

    Julie Soderlund, a spokeswoman for the governor, said last week “the governor’s position on Proposition 8 is clear – he does not support it.”

    “But during the course of (this) week, the governor is going to be completely focused on Proposition 11, which has been his priority since he was elected to office,” Soderlund said.

    As Flap said before:

    Actually, Arnold is UNPOPULAR in California because of his failure to control the Democrat Legislature in spending California blind and California Republicans have no use for his post-partisan BS leadership style.

    Schwarznenegger has spent $ millions in supporting Proposition 11, the Voters FIRST Act, a California redistricting initiative. The Governor needs GOP votes to pass this measure and doing anything for gay marriage will ABSOLUTELY sink Proposition 11.

    Arnold may still cut some ads for Proposition 8, the Protect Traditional Marriage Consitutional Amendment but don’t count on alot. And, with Proposition 8 up in the polls who knows if Schwarzenegger will even do that?

    Maria’s endorsement looks like this will be it for the Schwarzenegger’s involvement in this race.

    Gay Marriage supporting Republicans thought they had a friend with Arnold. However, Flap cannot say whether ads by Schwarzenegger would help at this point, anyway.


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  • Bill Keller,  Day By Day,  Media,  Media Bias,  New York Times

    Day By Day by Chris Muir October 28, 2008 – Freedom of …?

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    The New York Times is clinging to their agenda driven press coverage despite the fact that their number of subscribers is dramatically shrinking.

    Why?

    Why? I think I know, because had my life taken a different path, I could have been one: Picture yourself in your 50s in a job where you’ve spent 30 years working your way to the top, to the cockpit of power … only to discover that you’re presiding over a dying industry. The Internet and alternative media are stealing your readers, your advertisers and your top young talent. Many of your peers shrewdly took golden parachutes and disappeared. Your job doesn’t have anywhere near the power and influence it did when your started your climb. The Newspaper Guild is too weak to protect you any more, and there is a very good chance you’ll lose your job before you cross that finish line, 10 years hence, of retirement and a pension.

    In other words, you are facing career catastrophe — and desperate times call for desperate measures. Even if you have to risk everything on a single Hail Mary play. Even if you have to compromise the principles that got you here. After all, newspapers and network news are doomed anyway — all that counts is keeping them on life support until you can retire.

    And then the opportunity presents itself — an attractive young candidate whose politics likely matches yours, but more important, he offers the prospect of a transformed Washington with the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in your career.

    With luck, this monolithic, single-party government will crush the alternative media via a revived fairness doctrine, re-invigorate unions by getting rid of secret votes, and just maybe be beholden to people like you in the traditional media for getting it there.

    And besides, you tell yourself, it’s all for the good of the country …

    If the shoe fits Bill Keller……

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    • Newsroom staffing at the Los Angeles Times is shrinking again.

      Newspaper spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said Monday that 75 staffers are being laid off in the latest round of cuts.

      She declined further comment and would not disclose how many journalists will remain at the paper.

      The Times, which is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co., reduced its overall staff by 250 people last summer, including 150 from the newsroom.

      Editor Russ Stanton blamed the cutbacks on the economic slowdown.
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      Yawn…….What doe the editors of the LAT expect? I mean really…..

    • McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls — recorded messages often used to attack a candidate's opponent — "irritating" even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.

      A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

      "She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," this McCain adviser said. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

      "Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."
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      Being considered a Diva with the inept McCain campaign is really a badge of honor, no?

    • So let’s get this straight: decisions on where and how much NRCC money is deployed are made not by the committee or its chairman or staff but by a “unit” of political consultants who operate outside the realm of the committee and may very well have their own interests in certain candidates who do get money.

      And we won’t know who they are until after the election?
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      Is there any doubt why the GOP is losing?

      (tags: GOP NRCC Tom_Cole)
    • By a California elementary school teacher about Proposition 8 – protect traditional marriage.
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    • Here are the top 25 newspapers ranked by Sunday circulation for the six-month period ending September 2008, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percent change compares this period to the same period a year ago.
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      the Sunday circulation decline
    • Here are the top 25 daily papers ranked for the six-month period ending September 2008 based on a Monday-through-Friday average, according to the new FAS-FAX from the Audit Bureau of Circulations released today. The percent change compares this period to the same period a year ago.
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      the decline continues
    • The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game — with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.
      The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.

      But worst of all, for the last couple weeks, I've begun — for the first time in my adult life — to be embarrassed to admit what I do for a living. A few days ago, when asked by a new acquaintance what I did for a living, I replied that I was "a writer," because I couldn't bring myself to admit to a stranger that I'm a journalist.
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      When the bloom falls off the Obama Messiah rose there will be a difficult time of intraspection by the MSM while their sales continue to crater.

    • The man the GOP loves to hate tiptoed out of hiding Sunday – if only to blast Fox News and the rest of the media for his predicament.
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      Note the press was barred from attending the event.

      William Ayers, the '60s radical who is one of John McCain's talking points in his criticism of Barack Obama, told a Manhattan panel discussion audience he was tired of being used as cannon fodder in America's political wars.

    • Daily circ at The New York Times fell 3.5% to 1,000,665 copies.

      The Wall Street Journal (as we reported last week) was virtually flat, up about 1,800 copies on a daily basis to 2,011,999. USA Today was also up a fraction of a percent to 2,293,310 copies.

      But The Washington Post's daily circulation declined 1.9% to 622,714. Sunday was down 3.1% to 866,057. At the Los Angeles Times circ decreased a little more 5% daily and on Sunday to 739,147 and 1,055,076, respectively. Daily circulation at the Chicago Tribune was down 7.7% to 516,032. Sunday declined 5.7% to 864,845 copies.

      The San Francisco Chronicle lost 7% of its daily circulation to 339,430 copies while Sunday was down a hair more, 7.4% to 398,116. The San Jose Mercury News was down slightly, 1.9% to 224,199 and Sunday was down much more, 4.3% to 241,518.

      On the East Coast, daily circulation at The Boston Globe plummeted 10.1% to 323,983 copies. Sunday circ was down 8.4% to 503,659.
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      The end of the print newspaper?