• Dianne Feinstein

    CA-Sen: Unknown Candidates Line Up Against Sen Dianne Feinstein

    California’s Senor U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein

    Why these folks are bothering, is beyond me.

    No proven Republican candidates have stepped up yet to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein, but six little-known longshots plus Laguna Niguel’s Orly Taitz are trying to gain traction.

    Senate hopefuls Elizabeth Emken, Dan Hughes, Al Ramirez and Greg Conlon were pumping the flesh at last month’s convention of the California Republican Party, according to the Sacramento Bee’s coverage of the event.

    There’s also Ron Paul-styled Republican Rick Williams and San Diego County businessman John Boruff.

    Noe of these candidates has a hope or a prayer to beat DiFi.

    In fact, the California Republican Party was unsuccessful in recruiting any known POL to run – doesn’t that tell you something?

  • Rush Limbaugh

    Re: Rush Limbaugh – Should Conservatives Make an Example of Carbonite and ProFlowers?

    Professor Jacobson makes the case for a boycott.

    Liberal groups have seized on a strategy I didn’t think would be effective, but has had some success, to go after advertisers of prominent conservative media personalities.

    Media Matters explicitly seeks to bring down Fox News and investigate its executives, and Fox News advertisers have been targeted by groups like Color of Change, which has targeted Glenn Beck, Eric Bolling, Lou Dobbs, Pat Buchanan and Andrew Breitbart.

    Now Rush Limbaugh advertisers are the target because of an analogy he used.  As Jimmie Bise points out, Rush’s comments were overblown if one listens to what he actually said, but nonetheless, the use of “slut” or “prostitute” even in an analogy was inappropriate, as Rush has acknowledged.  It also distracted from the attack on religious freedom which is the heart of the controversy.

    As has become the pattern, Rush’s advertisers immediately were attacked and threatened, and several gave in quickly, like Quicken Loans and Sleep Number, pulling their advertising.

    No advertiser was more associated with Rush than Carbonite, an online computer back up company.  Rush often would read Carbonite’s ads himself, and would tout their service.

    Read it all.

    Seems sort of a waste for Carbonite, since they are just spewing money anyway. But, to use advertising to suppress free speech reminds me what happened during the California Proposition 8 election and its aftermath.

    The LEFT loves this tactic and the RIGHT is tired of taking it.

    I will NO longer purchase flowers from ProFlowers.

    I urge my fellow conservatives to send the message to ProFlowers and other advertisers.

  • Audra Strickland,  CA-26,  Julia Brownley,  Linda Parks,  Tony Strickland

    CA-26: Is NPP – No Party Preference a Passing Fad in California Elections?

    Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks and Congressional candidate

    Allen Hoffenblum, a ling time California political consultant, pundit and author asks the question.

    But the NPP candidate that will get the closest attention is Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks, who is running for Congress in an open district (CD26) where GOP state Sen. Tony Strickland and Democratic Asm. Julia Brownley are running (three other Democrats are also expected to be on the ballot).

    Parks is a moderate Republican who has long feuded with the area’s hard-core conservative activists. In her Nov. 2010 race for reelection to the Board of Supervisors, Park’s opponent was former Asm. Audra Strickland, wife of Tony. Though both were registered Republicans, the state GOP got involved, donating $50,000 to the Audra Strickland campaign. Parks, however, won, 61% – 39%.

    Statewide, independent voters – which the Secretary of State now labels as No Party Preference – comprise 21 percent of the electorate, just nine percent behind the Republican statewide registration of 30%.

    How well Parks performs in the June Primary may well determine if state voters, in sufficient numbers, are ready to cast a vote for an individual without a political party label.

    If she does well, along with continued increase in NPP registration and the continued decrease in GOP registration, the NPP label may evolve into being the serious “third party” alternative so many voters have been clamoring for.

    Linda Parks has been really a Democrat cloaked in a Republican registration for many years. Parks supporters have always been from a anti-business, slow-growth populist constituency. She never before has run for a partisan office, nor one based out of her geographical base of Thousand Oaks.

    When Parks beat former GOP Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, she beat a carpetbagger POL who had to move into the Ventura County Supervisorial District to challenge Parks. And, the incumbent supervisor had the overwhelming support of the Democrats and the Ventura County Public Employee Unions in the district.

    A smaller (smaller than a Congressional District) Supervisorial District, a challenger who was absent from the district most of the time and who was from Moorpark (not Thousand Oaks, where all of the voters are) aided Parks in her re-election effort.

    The top two and partisan June Primary election will be a whole different type of election.

    The Democrats will have a candidate in Assemblywoman Julia Brownley and will throw resources behind her.

    The Ventura County Employee Unions, a Democratic supporting constituency will have to stay either neutral or support both of them.

    Campaign contributions for Parks will be harder to obtain ( Democrats and Republicans should tap more sources of special interest money) and she will need to communicate to other areas of the Congressional District – stretching campaign resources, especially to respond to attacks from the Dems and GOP.

    I think Linda Parks will be lucky to be in the top two in June and go forward to the November general election.

    But, she has surprised before….

  • Scott Walker

    Scott Walker Video: Promises Kept

     

    In this web video, Governor Walker lays out the specific promises he made while campaigning in 2010 including addressing the state’s high unemployment rate, balancing the budget, eliminating the deficit and holding the line on taxes.

    Here is the transcript:

    Hi, I’m Scott Walker.

    In the three years before I was elected, Wisconsin lost 150,000 jobs.

    We promised to help employers create jobs.

    Today, Wisconsin’s unemployment rate, it’s the lowest it’s been since 2008.

    We kept our promise to balance the budget without raising taxes, and without massive layoffs, protecting jobs, and eliminating a $3.6 billion deficit.

    We promised to hold the line on property taxes, and after years of tax increases, school property taxes actually went down.

    Because public employees now contribute to their health and pension benefits, we were able to put more money back into the classroom, increase funding for healthcare for our seniors, and keep thousands of firefighters, police officers, and teachers on the job.

    We can’t go back to the days of billion dollar budget deficits and double digit tax increases.

    Help me oppose the recall, and let’s use the foundation we’ve built to keep moving Wisconsin forward.

    And, it looks like the recall election of Governor Walker may very well be held later in the election season – possibly May for the primary election and then June for the general.

  • Andrew Breitbart,  Breitbart.Com

    Breitbart.Com Relaunches

     

    The many branches of the Andrew Breitbart “Big” websites have relaunched today under the umbrella of Breitbart.com.

    Congrats to the new crew, who have taken up the mantle of the late Andrew Breitbart.

    Congrats and kudos to Breitbart’s crew — Dana Loesch, Joel Pollak, Kurt Schlicter, John Nolte, Larry O’Connor, Liberty Chick, and the entire staff of editors and writers — for carrying the torch.

    Carry on and keep kicking ass.

    I, especially, agree with Michelle’s last comment….

  • Day By Day,  Rush Limbaugh

    Day By Day March 5, 2012 – Star Wars



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Carbonite certainly has the “right” to purchase advertising on any radio program or venue. However, their political proclivities have certainly become evident with their cancelling of ads on Rush Limbaugh’s Show .

    David Friend, the CEO of Carbonite, an online data backup provider, said in a statement on the company’s Facebook page that he hoped his and other advertisers’ decision to pull their ads from Limbaugh’s show “will ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.”

    I, as a consumer, also have the “right” to do business with anyone I wish and Carbonite will not even be considered by me. I recommend the same treatment for Carbonite by all conservatives.

    Pro Flowers is another advertiser who has pulled their ads from the Rush Limbaugh Show. I note they also advertise a fair amount on other conservative talk radio shows, including Salem Communications.

    So, will they pull those ads when they do not agree with the commentator? Or a guest?

    I will no longer do business with this company either.

    Quicken Loans, Sleep Train Mattresses, Sleep Number, LegalZoom, Carbonite and Citrix have also said they will pull their advertisements from Limbaugh’s program.

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