• Barack Obama,  Hillary Clinton

    Hillary Clinton to be Next Secretary of State?

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    Yeah, right.

    There’s increasing chatter in political circles that the Obama camp is not overly happy with the usual suspects for secretary of state these days and that the field might be expanding somewhat beyond Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.), Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and maybe former Democratic senator Sam Nunn of Georgia.

    There’s talk, indeed, that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) may now be under consideration for the post. Her office referred any questions to the Obama transition; Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to comment.

    Senator John Kerry and/or Governor Bill Richardson bring more to Obama than a cackling member of the Clinton Cabal who can undermine the inexperienced Obama every day of his Presidency.

    Who leaked this nonsense?

    Podesta, Bill or Rudy Giuliani?


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  • Dianne Feinstein,  Jerry Brown,  Meg Whitman,  Steve Poizner,  Tom Campbell

    Meg Whitman Vs. Senator Dianne Feinstein for California Governor in 2010?

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    Meg Whitman, formerly President and CEO of eBay

    They both have as good a chance as any to represent their party (Whitman, GOP and DiFi, Democrat) according to the California Field Poll conducted before last Tuesday’s Presidential election.

    U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the early favorite on the Democratic side of the 2010 race for governor, and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is attracting attention in a likely battle for the GOP nomination, a new Field Poll shows.

    The survey, which was taken before last week’s election and lists the favorability ratings of possible candidates to succeed Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, “is a little teaser for when we start to look closer at the governor’s race next year,” said Mark DiCamillo, the poll’s director.

    Many California voters aren’t ready to shift their attention to an election that is more than 18 months away, but the fall campaign already has had an effect on San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose opposition to the same-sex marriage ban apparently hurt his statewide standing, according to the survey.

    On the GOP side, more than two-thirds of registered voters have no opinion about Whitman, former San Jose Rep. Tom Campbell or state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.

    “It’s basically a level playing field for all of them,” DiCamillo said.

    Here is a poll summary:

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    Flap thinks that on the Demcorat side the nomination will be between Dianne Feinstein and Jerry Brown since they are both seasoned polls who can raise the mega $ millions it will take to run a statewide campaign.

    Both appeal to the LEFT with Brown a little more fringe left than DiFi. However, both candidates are OLD and the newly registered young Democrats and independents (who vote in California Democrat primary elections) may be drawn to the sex scandal plagued duo of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

    A multi-way race will not be advantageous to either Brown or Feinstein – look for some early knock-out blows sponsored by the big Labor unions like SEIU.

    On the GOP side, Meg Whitman will be the nominee if she wants it. Campbell and Poizner are light-weights politically and although Poizner can self-fund, Whitman has the $ mega-bucks to match him dollar for dollar, plus more. Whitman is new and fresh but can she read a teleprompter?

    Meg Whitman was also highly visible in the Yes on California Proposition 8 campaign which had the support of California conservatives. Flap believes Campbell favors gay marriage and Poizner remained neutral during the Prop 8 campaign.

    Stay tuned as early posturing begins and don’t forget there may be a darkhorse GOP candidate should Whitman decide to sit this one out – Mitt Romney.

    Stay tuned…….


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  • Tom McClintock

    Tom McClintock’s Lead Expands in California Congressional District 4

    Tom McClintock and yes on 8

    State Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, a candidate for the 4th Congressional district, spoke in favor of Proposition 8 at rally at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008.

    Updated vote tallies (as of last night) have expanded California State Senator Tom McClintock’s lead in California’s 4th Congressional district to 1,283 votes.

    Our lead has now widened to 1,283 votes out of 326,395 counted, or 0.39 percent.  We are now taking 50.20 percent of the votes counted and need 48.49 percent of the remaining 42,500 ballots.

    Nevada County reported 1,950 additional votes today, of which we received 45.79 percent – well above the 42.52 we had on Election Day.  This loss was more than offset when Sacramento County reported 491 additional ballots counted, of which we received 54.17 percent of the vote (up from 53.10 on election day); and El Dorado County processed an additional 5,573 ballots, of which we received 52.79 percent (up from 50.34 on election day).

    Team McClintock estimates there are 8,600 ballots remaining to be counted in counties where McClintock’s opponent, Charlie Brown, has had the lead and 33,900 ballots remaining from counties where McClintock leads.

    Better to be ahead than behind…..

    Stay tuned……


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  • Gay Marriage

    California Proposition 8 Watch: The Blame For Gay Marriage Failing at the California Polls

    Yes on 8 – Protect Traditional Marriage Television Ad: “Whether You Like it Or Not”

    The blame game for the passage of California Proposition 8 which restored the traditional definition of marriage has started.

    A week after California voters approved Proposition 8 and decreed they wanted to end same-sex marriage in the state, details are emerging of an opposition campaign that was in disarray.

    Key staff members – including the campaign manager – were replaced in the final weeks as polls turned dramatically against the No side. Their replacements say they found an effort that was too timid, slow to react, without a radio campaign or a strategy to reach out to African Americans, a group that ultimately supported the measure by more than 2 to 1.

    The above televison ad with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom pandering to a pro-gay marriage crowd and saying that gay marriage was going to happen “whether you like it or not” was the turning point in the campaign.

    California voters did NOT like having their vote devalued by the courts and the decline of support for gay marriage started with this Gavin Newsom GAFFE.


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  • Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin’s Press Conference Today

    Sarah Palin at the RGA Conference, November 13, 2008

    How much did Mitt Romney pay Jonathan Martin to say this was an awkward press conference?

    Flap swears as the MSM is in the tank for Obama, Martin and Politico is in the tank for Mitt Romney.

    Sarah Palin was NOT awkward and why she did not have her own press conference during the McCain campaign for the Presidency is anyone’s guess.

    The answer: Mac did not want to be upstaged.


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  • Gay Marriage

    Gay Marriage Headed Back to California Ballot in June 2010?

    The Story of California Proposition 8 – Protect Traditional Marriage

    Flap has wondered why the proponents of gay marriage in California have been staging protests in the streets and at churches even after they lost Proposition 8. Obviously, the homosexual lobby knows their California Supreme Court legal challenge to Proposition 8 is bogus and will fail.

    But, why harass churchgoers and certain church denominations. like the Mormons and Catholics who financially supported traditional marriage?

    Now, it is clear.

    Intimidation.

    Gay marriage proponents intend to place the issue back on the ballot in June 2010.

    Gay rights groups in California plan to ask voters to overturn the ban on same-sex marriage they approved last week if legal challenges to Proposition 8 are unsuccessful.

    In an e-mail to supporters, Equality California executive director Geoffrey Kors said Wednesday that he and other gay marriage advocates are aiming for a ballot initiative to reverse the ban in two years.

    Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that overruled the California Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriage, passed 52 percent to 48 percent.

    What better way to intimidate supporters of Proposition 8 to NOT support the NEXT gay marriage proposition then to attempt to shame them publicly at their churches or places of business?

    Flap does not think this will work. In fact, there may very well be a backlash against those businesses like Apple Computer, AT&T, Google, Dreamworks, Lucas films, Levi Strauss and others (search here) that gave $ hundreds of thousands to redefine marriage.

    Gay marriage proponents have lost every election where the issue has been on the ballot. The people of California have spoken with their vote in favor of Proposition 8.

    If there is another election in California, traditional marriage will win again.


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  • economics,  George W. Bush,  Harry Reid,  John McCain,  Nancy Pelosi

    SHOCKER: No Oversight for $700 Billion Financial Bailout Package

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    Don’t blame Flap who didn’t support the financial bailout.

    In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury’s massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country’s largest banks, recruited smaller banks into the program and repeatedly widened its scope to cover yet other types of businesses, from insurers to consumer lenders.

    Along the way, the Bush administration has committed $290 billion of the $700 billion rescue package.

    Yet for all this activity, no formal action has been taken to fill the independent oversight posts established by Congress when it approved the bailout to prevent corruption and government waste. Nor has the first monitoring report required by lawmakers been completed, though the initial deadline has passed.

    “It’s a mess,” said Eric M. Thorson, the Treasury Department’s inspector general, who has been working to oversee the bailout program until the newly created position of special inspector general is filled. “I don’t think anyone understands right now how we’re going to do proper oversight of this thing.”

    In approving the rescue package, lawmakers trumpeted provisions in the legislation that established layers of independent scrutiny, including a special inspector general to be nominated by the White House and a congressional oversight panel to be named by lawmakers themselves.

    The most MAJOR error in the McCain campaign for President was acquiescing on the Bush, Pelosi, Reid, Paulson bailout plan. Had McCain come out against the bailout he may have had a chance at being elected President.

    Now, the American taxpayers will just be screwed over and over again by the big spenders in Congress.

    No oversight indeed.


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  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day by Chris Muir November 13, 2008 – Commune With the One! MSM Meditations

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    A brief review of NBC News this morning had stories fretting over “The One’s” children NOT attending the poor Washington D.C. public schools and the parents not wanting the girls to be on The Hannah Montana Show. Keeping them real, no doubt.

    Flap bets that the ObaMessiah’s kids end up in a private school (for religious reasons, of course, and not the squalor of D.C public education) and they show up on Hannah Montana.

    In the meantime, some in the media continue to insist on Trig Palin’s DNA to run a maternity test.

    What double standard?

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    links for 2008-11-13

    • The good news for supporters of marriage equity is that — and there's no polite way to put this — the older voters aren't going to be around for all that much longer, and they'll gradually be cycled out and replaced by younger voters who grew up in a more tolerant era. Everyone knew going in that Prop 8 was going to be a photo finish — California might be just progressive enough and 2008 might be just soon enough for the voters to affirm marriage equity. Or, it might fall just short, which is what happened. But two or four or six or eight years from now, it will get across the finish line.
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      Don't count on passage anytime soon, Nate.
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    • With Employers
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    • He was an early supporter of John McCain and won some initial veep buzz before falling off the radar to run his own breeze of a re-election campaign.

      But to chat with him here at the RGA and then see him address a room full of reporters, it seems that Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr may very well be in the presidential mix in 2012.

      Huntsman, 48, cuts an impressive figure and has a fascinating personal and political story to tell, including the sort of foreign policy background most governors lack. The scion of a prominent Mormon family, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore for Bush 41 when he was in his early 30s, did trade stints in the Commerce Department and was a Deputy U.S. Trade Representative under the current Bush, overseeing trade with Africa and Asia.

      Fluent in Mandarin Chinese — a few words of which he put on display to an unexpectant press corps — Huntsman is the father of seven, including two adopted girls from China and India.

    • — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday said she would consider serving in the Senate if God gave her the opportunity and Alaskans wanted her to take the job. Republican Sen. Ted Stevens holds a narrow lead in a race for his seat that is still undecided. About 90,000 votes were outstanding and a little more than half are being counted Wednesday, according to election officials.

      Even if he is re-elected, Stevens could be ousted by the Senate for his conviction on seven felony counts of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts, mostly renovations on his home. If Stevens loses his seat, Palin could run for it in a special election.
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      Coulda shoulda Woulda for the 'Cuda. Stevens is now trailing by 3 votes in the Alaska Senate race. We will know more next week.

    • Have a look at the largest donors who support gay marriage in California. Should traditional marriage supporters boycott them?
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    • A listing of donors of Yes on Propositon
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    • Scott Eckern, the Sacramento theater director whose political donation in support of California's Prop. 8 ban on same-sex marriage has become a lightning rod in the debate over gay rights, resigned today. He said he wanted to protect the California Musical Theatre, his artistic home since 1984, from further controversy.

      Word of Eckern's $1,000 donation — publicly reported under state elections law — spread rapidly on the Internet late last week, and Eckern drew criticism from some prominent stage artists, including Tony Award-winning composer Marc Shaiman ("Hairspray") and Jeff Whitty, the "Avenue Q" librettist, who wrote on his whitless.com website about his thoughts on how to deal with the fact that "Avenue Q" would be opening at California Musical Theatre in March.
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      When will there be a backlash against the homosexual community? It is coming, mark Flap's word.

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    • As of Tuesday 11/11/2008 at 4:49 PM
      TS: 15,356
      HBJ: 11,322
    • As of today at 1:46 PM
      TS: 115,753
      HBJ: 104,920
    • As of 4:32 PM today:
      HBJ: 69,829
      TS: 56,522
    • While they are behind by more than 3,000 votes, Democrats remain (cautiously) optimistic due to the large number of votes still uncounted and Begich's strength among those early votes that have been tabulated. (The incomparable Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com breaks down the numbers behind this argument.)

      We should know by late today — or maybe tomorrow morning — whether that optimism is well founded or not. If Begich can't get ahead by the end of counting today, he's not likely to pull off the come-from-behind victory some Democrats see for him.
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      Flap bets on Stevens…..

    • A federal appeals court has upheld bribery charges against U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, clearing the way for a trial.

      The Louisiana Democrat sought to dismiss the indictment, claiming that his constitutional rights were violated when the grand jury received evidence that violated legislative immunity.

      The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected Jefferson's claims, ruling that prosecutors can pursue the case without making reference to constitutionally protected material.

      A lower court judge previously refused to dismiss the indictment, saying Jefferson was trying to apply immunity so broadly that it would make it virtually impossible to ever charge a congressman with a crime.
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      Damn finally!

    • As of late afternoon there have been no changes in the reported count – we are still ahead by 1,092 votes, or 0.34 percent out of 313,384 votes counted.

      We expect the bulk of Nevada County’s votes to be reported tomorrow, where we could lose as many as 1,500 votes. Nevertheless, we are seeing better performance with the late absentees than we saw on election night in every county – including Nevada – and if that keeps up, our numbers should bounce back fairly rapidly. Based on the precincts yet to be counted, chances are very good that our lead should start widening from our low point when Nevada comes in. If we stay out of negative territory with that vote, victory should be within sight.
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      Stay tuned for an update this afternoon

    • FOOT IN MOUTH — Politico exclusive, thanks to a tip from one of the Playbook Playahs: A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos yesterday after political analyst Michael Barone said "the liberal media" trashed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, because "she did not abort her Down syndrome baby." Barone said in an e-mail that he "was attempting to be humorous and … went over the line." Barone was speaking in Chicago to the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. "The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby," Barone said. "They wanted her to kill that child. … I'm talking about my media colleagues with whom I've worked for 35 years.”
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      What do you expect from a group of academics where the LEFT is the incubator. Still, Barone should have been more tempered in his comments.
    • ncumbent Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) retains a narrow lead over Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) as Stevens tries to retain his seat in the wake of a felon conviction. But what would happen should his lead hold?

      Time to put to bed the rumors of Gov. Sarah Palin appointing herself to should Stevens win and then resign, news stories to the contrary.

      Citizen reaction to former Governor Murkowski appointing his daughter, Lisa, to a vacant Senate seat in 2002 was a 2004 ballot initiative stripping the Governor of this power (56% to 44%). According to the Alaska Elections website (pdf), the 2002 initiative "repeal[s] state law by which theGovernor makes a temporary appointment of a person tofill a U.S. Senate vacancy until a special or regularelection can be held."
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      But, Palin would have a free ride to run for the Senate seat and she should.

    • Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages.

      Sitting in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York this week, the Florida Republican, wearing a yellow tie with blue elephants, finally broke his silence.

      "I'm trying to find my way back," Foley said in an interview with The Associated Press, his first public comments on the scandal since resigning from Congress on Sept. 29, 2006.

      Foley insists he did nothing illegal and never had sexual contact with teens, just inappropriate Internet conversations. Investigations by the FBI and Florida authorities ended without criminal charges.
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      Sorry but Mark Foley is a homosexual prevert. Show him the door and he should be thankful he was not prosecuted for sex crimes.

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    • Barely a week after Barack Obama's decisive victory, Republican governors across the country gather in Miami today for two days of exploring how to find their way out of the wilderness.
      The host of the Republican Governors' Association event is Florida's Charlie Crist, a big believer in the "big tent" theory who calls his way of governing "a model for the country."

      But Crist will have to share the stage with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was wildly popular with the conservative base of the GOP that remains a little wary of Crist.
      Crist is one of several Republican governors who will address the convention. Others include Rick Perry of Texas, Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota.

      But it is likely to be Palin who eclipses them all. Since last week's election defeat, the former vice presidential nominee has kept a very high profile with interviews and appearances in which she has said she'll "plow through that door" of a presidential run if it's God's will….

    • Said McCain last night on Leno: "I really believe that Sarah Palin is amongst some, like Tim Pawlenty and Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, there's a group of young Republican governors and — mainly governors, but also some in the Senate — that I think are the next generation of leadership of our party."
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      Palin,Jindal and Pawlenty in this order.