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Isn’t this sponsored by Answer the radical left-wing SOCIALIST group that protested the Iraq War, Israel and supported illegal alien rights?

Yes, it is.

Fancy that.

Now, the cause celeb is gay marriage.

The McCain staffer whose fingerprints and DNA have been found on the knife in Sarah Palin’s back is former CBS political analyst Nicolle Wallace.

It has now been made public that Nicolle Wallace is one of the sources behind the Palin smears.  Wallace, a former Bush aid has been receiving protection and direction throughout this smear campaign from Rick Davis, John McCain 2008 Campaign Manager.  On November 4th, Nicolle Wallace contacted Fox News and Newsweek and falsely accused Governor Palin of purchasing additional wardrobe accessories, even after the $150,000 shopping spree revelation was made public.  Ms. Wallace has also been quoted on the record as saying, â€this campaign may do me in,”.  No wonder. 

It has also been confirmed that the Palin smear campaign began before November 4th.  At least two weeks prior to election day, Wallace and close friend Rick Davis, decided that John McCain would not become elected President of the United States.  Fearful that the poorly managed campaign would prohibit them from obtaining any future high paying lobbyist or political positions (Davis resigned from his firm earlier this year at the request of Senator McCain), Wallace and Davis created an elaborate scheme to direct blame for the failed campaign towards Governor Palin, hoping to take attention away from their strategic errors.  Davis and Wallace were behind the decisions to hide Palin from the press, Palin’s make-over, the â€you can see Russia from Alaska” foreign policy argument and the over coaching Palin received prior to interviews.  The clothing purchases and coaching Palin received from Wallace and other campaign staff had all been approved by Mr. Davis. 

Wallace and Davis are currently unemployed, although it has been reported that Davis has been receiving payments from Fannie and Freddie, acting as his single source of income.  Earlier this year John McCain demanded that Davis resign from his position as one of DC’s top lobbyists.  Many political observers believe that Davis permanently damaged his political career through his inability to successfully run a national campaign, which then forced Senator McCain to re-assign most of Mr. Davis’s duties as Campaign Manager to Steve Schmidt.  Davis was left with one single responsibility, support and direct the Vice Presidential nominee.

Read the entire piece.

Flap would like Carl Cameron to interview Ms. Wallace about the substance of these charges and allow Governor Palin an opportunity to refute them.

Hell, either of them or their surrogates are welcome to come here and respond.

Chances of THAT happening?

Nihil…….

Stay tuned…….

Flap asked the question prior to Tuesday’s California election: Will San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Deserve The Blame When California Proposition 8 Passes?

The answer is apparently yes – both in San Francisco and statewide (Newsom will run for California Governor in 2010).

Election night was not kind to Gavin Newsom, who may end up one of the biggest losers after suffering a potentially crushing loss with Proposition 8 and at best breaking even in the local contests he had a stake in.

Political analysts have long argued that Newsom has short coattails in local politics – a theory in play with the Board of Supervisors races, in which at least three of the seven seats up for grabs seem likely to go to candidates he did not endorse.

With the local ballot measures, voters for the most part sided with Newsom’s choices, but two propositions that were of particular interest to the mayor – one supporting his special court to prosecute quality-of-life crimes and the other changing the makeup of the San Francisco Transportation Authority – failed spectacularly.

And, pandering to the homosexual lobby has not helped Newsom with other key California Democrat constituencies, African-American and Latino voters.

“The Latino and black voters really turned out in this election. They helped get Proposition 8 voted in, and that portends badly for Gavin Newsom if he’s intending to run for governor,” Boushey said. “He’s going to have to appeal to those voters. They’re socially moderate, and they don’t recognize Gavin Newsom as being socially moderate.”

Paradoxically, the mayor is seen as too liberal for much of the state and too conservative compared to the city’s legislators.

Look to California Attorney General, Jerry Brown, to demagogue the legal challenge to Proposition 8 and pick-up key homosexual lobby support for HIS run for California Governor. Gavin Newsom rolled the dice in 2004 by setting up the California gay marriage flap and will go down to defeat with its proponents.

Here is the video featuring Gavin Newsom – “whether you like it or not:”

The California GOP will NEVER support/vote for this proposal.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called today for a temporary 1.5-cent increase in the state sales tax to help close an $11.2 billion deficit in the state budget, as well as new taxes on liquor and oil production.

Schwarzenegger also proposed one-day-a-month unpaid furloughs for state workers for the next 17 months, as well as rescinding two of the workers’ 13 paid holidays

In calling the Legislature into special session to deal with the deficit, Schwarzenegger said it was vital for legislators to act swiftly.

Flap has been harping on Schwarzenegger for years to cut the bloated California budget and time after time shortfalls come home to roost.

Other elements of the Governor’s plan:

• Cutting spending on programs in the current budget by $4.5 billion, $2.5 billion of it from elementary and high schools.

• Revamping the state’s cash-strapped unemployment insurance system by gradually increasing the rates charged to employers and lowering benefits while tightening eligibility requirements.

• Relaxing some state labor regulations dealing with meal and rest periods, overtime exemptions and work schedules.

• Speeding up public works projects, especially hospital construction, to inject life into the state economy. That would require modifying some environmental regulations.

The California GOP must resist all tax increases and force the Democrats to cut the budget and take responsibility for their profligate spending habits.

Think it will happen?

Nahhhh some spineless GOP legislator will sell out the Republican Caucus and Flap will be paying more and more in taxes.

Won’t help the very poor California economy much.

With 100 per cent of the precincts reporting (at least on the California Secretary of State website) the winning tally for California Porposition 8 which restores the traditional definition of marriage to the California Constitution is:

• Yes – 5,387,939 – 52.5%
• No – 4,883,460 – 47.5%

In Ventura County (where Flap lives):

• Yes – 127,124 – 53.3%
• No – 111,465 – 46.7%

The interactive map from the California Secretary of State continues to be down but here is a screen cap from yesterday.

The exact totals are a little different on this map but the trends are definite. Support for Proposition 8 is widespread and concentrated in southern and northern-inland, central-inland California.

Remember the last internal polling from the Yes on 8 Campaign had the race tied and they counted on a homosexual type of Bradley effect in polling to predict the race.

The history of polling on this issue suggests there is a percentage of people who do not accurately report they support traditional marriage. They do not want to say something that may be perceived as not politically correct. Historically, that polling percentage has averaged about 7 % if you look at all of the states where marriage has been on the ballot. “I don’t think it will be 7 per cent this time, more like 4 or 5 per cent bump that we will get…”

Looks like a 5 percentage point victory and Frank Schubert who ran the Yes on 8 campaign was correct.

Now, Proposition 8 moves to the courts.

Stay tuned………